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- The girl who couldn't stop laughing
- Movies with gory, disgusting scenes more likely to capture, engage audience
- Standing up gets groups more fired up for team work
| The girl who couldn't stop laughing Posted: 15 Jun 2014 11:36 AM PDT A six-year-old Bolivian girl presented with an unusual medical symptom: uncontrollable and inappropriate fits of laughter. "She was considered spoiled, crazy, even devil-possessed," according to those who knew her. Then medical researchers discovered a hamartoma -- a small tumor pressing on the temporal lobe of her brain. |
| Movies with gory, disgusting scenes more likely to capture, engage audience Posted: 12 Jun 2014 11:23 AM PDT People exposed to core disgusts (blood, guts, body products) showed higher levels of attention the more disgusting the content grew, even though they had negative reactions to the content. The findings suggested that socio-moral disgust-eliciting content elicited a slower response, characterized by one of initial attention and increasing negativity and arousal, and was remembered better before, at and after the onset of disgust. Both core disgusts saw more of an immediate negativity and defensive response. |
| Standing up gets groups more fired up for team work Posted: 12 Jun 2014 08:46 AM PDT Chairs provide great support during long meetings, but they may also be holding us back. Standing during meetings boosts the excitement around creative group processes and reduces people's tendency to defend their turf, according to a new study. The participants wore small sensors around their wrists to measure "physiological arousal" -- the way people's bodies react when they get excited. When a person's arousal system becomes activated, sweat glands around the feet and hands release bursts of moisture. The sensors pass a small current of electricity through the skin to measure these moisture bursts. |
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