Daily Archives: September 26, 2007

Pride requires an audience, but Joy you can do alone

September 26, 2007
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Pride requires an audience, but Joy you can do alone

Our results support the idea that pride is a self-conscious emotion, requiring the ability to detect the intention of others. At the same time, judgment of pride might require less self-reflection compared with those of negative self-conscious emotions such as guilt or embarrassment.

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Neurological Correlates: Neuromarketing — don’t try to guilt trip the disagreeable

September 26, 2007
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Neurological Correlates: Neuromarketing — don’t try to guilt trip the disagreeable

". . .Overall, prosocial motivation is linked to (a) Agreeableness as a dimension of personality, (b) proximal prosocial cognition and motives, and (c) helping behavior across a range of situations and victims. In persons low in prosocial motivation, when costs of helping are high, efforts to induce empathy situationally can undermine prosocial behavior. ....

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Neurological Correlates: Neuroeconomics – Who is likely to sue you?

September 26, 2007
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Neurological Correlates: Neuroeconomics – Who is likely to sue you?

Or, how do you pick customers unlikely to sue you? At least with doctors, there is now a paper: What patient attributes are associated with thoughts of suing a physician? Fishbain, et al., Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2007 May;88(5):589-96 (full abstract after the jump).

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