Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.