A local newspaper, Skövde Nyheter, has published a short profile piece (in Swedish only) on the dream research of our very own Pilleriin Sikka. Another local newspaper, Falköpings Tidning, has also published a profile piece (again in Swedish only) on the recent Seasonal Affective Disorder research of our very own Katja Valli.
The evolution of emotions…
… a tad oversimplified in parts, perhaps, but an interesting piece nonetheless, courtesy of Aeon.
Compulsive joking…
… commentary on two interesting case studies over at Neuroskeptic.
Empathy Online: Where in the narrative does the trigger lie?
In the previous posts concerning the elicitation of empathic responses on the HONY blog in relation to the refugee series, I have highlighted the differences between the HONY blog and more general news outlets, as well as the ability of the blog to sidestep the problems in photojournalism. I have also touched upon the possibility […]
Empathy Online: The psychological dynamics behind evading empathy fatigue
This is part three of a four-part post series concerning empathy and the HONY blog. In the first and second posts, I have highlighted the effectiveness of the HONY blog in terms of evoking empathic responses from readers, as well as its ability to sidestep some of the problems inherent in photojournalism. For this and […]
Empathy Online: HONY as a form of (uncontroversial) photojournalism
This is part two of a four-part post series concerning empathy and the HONY blog. In the previous post, I have highlighted the popularity of the HONY blog in comparison to other news outlets, and its ability to continuously elicit empathic responses from its readers. At least for the period of time the HONY blog […]
Empathy Online: The Refugee Series on Humans of New York blog
Editor’s Introduction The post below, and the series of posts that follows, is researched, drafted, written up and finalized by one of our current MSc students, Boushra Dalile, with only very minimal editorial feedback. It is with great pleasure that we are here able to offer her a platform for discussing these important and […]
Publication on dreams and Parkinson’s
A team of researchers including Katja Valli and Antti Revonsuo have published an article in the journal Sleep Medicine with the title “Dreaming furiously? A sleep laboratory study on the dream content of people with Parkinson’s disease and with or without rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder“. Briefly, the study investigated the dream content of […]