emotion: Media

psychology

Videos

What is it like to never feel fear?
SM is a woman who lost the ability to learn from fear after the loss of her amygdala....
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Hear about a computer algorithm that can distinguish and deconstruct different types of smiles expressing automatically
Learn about a computer algorithm that can distinguish between smiles that express...
Video: © Massachusetts Institute of Technology (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Explore the health benefits of laughter and how contagious it can be
Learn about the health benefits of laughter and how it can be contagious.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Learn what behavior the limbic system controls
A brief overview of the limbic system, which generates emotions in people.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Find out the importance of social and emotional learning
Learn more about social and emotional learning in childhood.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Rembrandt: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer
Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, oil on canvas by Rembrandt van...
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The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas
The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas, fresco by Andrea da Firenze, depicting...
SCALA/Art Resource, New York
William James
William James.
Courtesy of the Harvard University News Service
left cerebral hemisphere of the human brain
Medial view of the left hemisphere of the human brain.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, carbon print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
Courtesy of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Plato
Marble portrait bust of Plato, from an original of the 4th century bce;...
© DeAgostini/SuperStock