People who experience the physical sensations of others have “mirror-touch synesthesia.” It means they can feel a sensation on the same part of the body where they see someone else being hit, stroked, kissed, or injected. Researchers have been studying their brains to work out what makes them different to […]
Almost everyone feels shame. There are four distinct types of shame that psychotherapist Joseph Burgo calls the “shame paradigms.” Shame can sometimes be intense and toxic, but it also affects people in their everyday lives. When Joseph Burgo first proposed the idea of writing about shame, he found that people […]
When we feel different emotions, the blood flow in our faces changes. This creates subtle colour changes, which other people can pick up on. In fact, according to new research, people can correctly identify someone’s emotions from these colour changes up to 75% of the time. Being “blue in the […]
Dr. Alan Schlechter, author of "U Thrive: How...
Dr. Alan Schlechter, author of "U Thrive: How...
Have you ever had the urge to say to someone...
She literally goes through the full spectrum of human emotions.
