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Veridical perception of visual cues is necessary for spatial orientation and
controlling our movements as we navigate within our environment. Driving and
athletics are two arenas with which everyone can associate in terms of visually
guided…

It is inconceivable to me that there could be an approach to the mind, or to
human and animal adaptation, in which emotions are not a key component.
Failure to give emotion a central role puts theoretical and research psychology
out of step with…

We’re here to discuss empathy and fairness. In the last few years there have been
dramatic changes in our attitude to concepts such as these. While we have always
known that empathy and fairness describe a vital part of human culture, very few…

If you're reading this page, there's probably someone at work whose
behavior drives you crazy. It may be a chaotic coworker, an obnoxious boss, an unruly employee, an inept department, or an impossible client. Whoever it is, interactions with this…

Some of the people at the National Institute of Mental Health to
whom this book is dedicated took an interest in my career back
when I was a beginning graduate student in 1955. The others joined in over the years. It has been an amazing span—1955…

During the past years the “mystery” of emotions has increasingly attracted
interest in research on human–computer interaction. In this work we investigate
the problem of how to incorporate the user’s emotional state into a spoken…

Parent and adult child.

In 1981, Leonard Pearlin and his colleagues published an article that would radically shift the sociological study of mental health from an emphasis on psychiatric
disorder to a focus on social structure and its consequences for stress and…

Many people have helped in the research and writing of this book in various ways:
by welcoming me as a participant in their activities and by submitting to interviews,
by providing pre-publication material and other documentation on…