How Art Works: Visual Emotion
Writer and illustrator Molly Bang describes how pictures trigger our emotions from paintings to advertising.
View ArticleHow Art Works: Black & White
Molly Bang explores the emotional resonance of black and white.
View ArticlePlaying Our Song
Producer Jeff Lunden explores how specific songs can trigger intense emotional memories.
View ArticleCan You Read My Mind? Technology That Reads Our Thoughts and Emotions
During last week’s tech segment, we explored military technology that’s being developed for use in the near future and the far-off future. Among the inventions that had a lot of us on the edge of our...
View ArticleThe Science of Smiling
Carl Zimmer, contributor to The New York Times' Science Times and author of Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys Through the Mind, talks about developments in the research of smiling and what smiling means...
View ArticleWorking Through the Tears
Anne Kreamer, former executive at Nickelodeon, part of the founding team of SPY magazine, author of Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity and Everything Else that...
View ArticleEmotions and the Brain
Sharon Begley, science journalist at Reuters and Richard J. Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who co-wrote The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How...
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Find a Face
This week, a scavenger hunt of sorts. A call for faces. In cinnamon buns. Coffee stains. Clouds. Wherever you may see them.In our Falling show, I interviewed Simon -- a man who can't recognize faces....
View ArticleOn Goose Bumps
Holy heck, I just learned something crazy.So you know about vestigial traits? Organs or attributes that no longer serve their original purpose, but still haven't completely vanished. Like your...
View ArticleThe Emotions of Doctors
Danielle Ofri, attending physician at Bellevue Hospital, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review and the author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine...
View ArticleSing Along
Stacy Horn, author of Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others (Algonquin Books, 2013), explores the benefits of group singing--social, medical, and emotional.Update: The choir...
View ArticleStudy: Humans Feel Only Four Basic Emotions
There are countless of words to describe emotions, and for centuries people have created songs and poems that attempt to describe them. And of course, our own hearts and minds feel them so...
View ArticleLu vs. Soo
Lulu Miller, reporter at NPR and former Radiolab producer, tells us the story of how her entire world view flipped in one scary moment. It happened on a bike trip she took with her friend Soo. Lulu and...
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Darwin's Stickers
For the past year, I have been working closely with Jad Abumrad and the team at RadioLab on a fascinating story about Facebook.The story centers on the work of Arturo Bejar, who is one of the technical...
View ArticleThe Trust Engineers
When we talk online, things can go south fast. But they don’t have to. Today, we meet a group of social engineers who are convinced that tiny changes in wording can make the online world a kinder,...
View ArticleDecisions are More Emotional Than You Think
If you’re sad, you should wait on making any high-stakes financial decisions, argues Jennifer Lerner, co-founder of the Harvard Decision Science Lab. Research shows that even when you don’t think...
View ArticleThe Hidden World of Animal Emotions
Carl Safina discusses how animals experience joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. In Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, Safina writes about his travels to places like Kenya’s Amboseli...
View ArticleComputers That Can Read Your Emotions
In science-fiction, you’ll encounter a lot of computers that can feel... HAL 9000, Deckard, WALL-E. But what about computers that can really sense your emotions? MIT Professor Rosalind Picard takes a...
View ArticleDecisions are More Emotional Than You Think
If you’re sad, you should wait on making any high-stakes financial decisions, argues Jennifer Lerner, co-founder of the Harvard Decision Science Lab. Research shows that even when you don’t think...
View ArticleComputers That Can Read Your Emotions
In science-fiction, you’ll encounter a lot of computers that can feel... HAL 9000, Deckard, WALL-E. But what about computers that can really sense your emotions? MIT Professor Rosalind Picard takes a...
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