The interplay between learning, motivation and emotion forms a cornerstone of human cognition. Contemporary research illustrates that learning is not merely a cognitive process of knowledge ...

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Social awkwardness, shyness: most of us have experienced such feelings at one time or another. In a recent post, I drew upon the unusual America's Got Talent performance of Courtney Hadwin to ...

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"Emotion is a complex and intense (with an abrupt onset and relatively short duration) psychophysiological experience of an animal individual's state of mind related to a locatable object as it reacts ...