Together these make up the paradoxical emotion of acedia. Evagrius of Pontus included acedia among the eight trains of thought that needed to be overcome by devout Christians. Among these ...

This message can be summarized using the apparently paradoxical combination of words: “rational emotions.” Research in behavioral economics and the popular literature that it has spawned ...

Our emotions differ in terms of degrees of strength. But how does this affect our ability to infer meaning from how it is expressed? A paradoxical relationship between the intensity of emotional ...

and Emotion (CLaME) has now discovered a paradoxical relationship between the intensity of emotional expressions and how they are perceived. Emotions vary in their intensity. A person being ...

A facial expression or the sound of a voice can say a lot about a person's emotional state; and how much they reveal depends on the intensity of the feeling. But is it really true that the ...