Emotional awareness is the ability to conceptualize and describe one's own emotions and
those of others. Over thirty years ago, a cognitive-developmental theory of emotional …

Spontaneous mimicry appears fundamental to emotional perception and contagion,
especially when it involves facial emotional expressions. Here we cover recent evidence on …

Meditation is an umbrella term, which subsumes a huge number of diverse practices. It is still
unclear how these practices can be classified in a reasonable way. Earlier proposals have …

This paper introduces the bodymind model of Art Therapy and delineates the processes
through which it has salutary effects on individuals coping with a variety of health related …

Recent studies have shown that the positive emotional design of learning environments
might foster learning performance. In contrast, the seductive detail effect postulates that …

Psychological research on emotion perception anchors heavily on an object perception
analogy. We present static “cues,” such as facial expressions, as objects for perceivers to …

This review and meta-analysis explores the experimental effects of expansive and
contractive motor displays on affective, hormonal, and behavioral responses. Experimental …

This review explores spontaneous mimicry in the context of three questions. The first
question concerns the role of spontaneous mimicry in processing conceptual information …

Emotion concepts are important. They help us to understand, experience and predict human
behaviour. Emotion concepts also link the realm of the abstract with the realm of bodily …

In this paper, we argue that several recent 'wide'perspectives on cognition (embodied,
embedded, extended, enactive, and distributed) are only partially relevant to the study of …