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Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.

The claim that speech can be violence is dangerous, it is argued, because it exacerbates the emotional vulnerability that’s already rampant in the “Internet generation,” of which today’s undergraduates are a part.Image by Eduard Bezembinder / Flickr If you Google “It’s been emotional,” even without quotes, you’ll find that a clip from Guy Ritchie’s 1998 […]

Think you can read people’s emotions? Think again.

Inside a new theory of emotions that spotlights how the brain works.