#comparative-psychology

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Science
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

A Deep Dive Into Why Joy is Essential, Who Feels It, and Why

Rapid, short-lived 'woo-hoo' joy and longer transcendent joy occur across diverse animal species and likely evolved as adaptive emotional states.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

How the Search for Meaning Helps and Hurts Us

Humans' language-driven overgeneralization causes psychological difficulty; animals avoid this through limited verbal labeling, enabling them to move on.
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