(S+) Wissenschaftler geben Emotion einen Namen: Was ist Kama Muta? Wissenschaftler untersuchen eine Emotion, für die es lange keinen englischen Ausdruck gab. Bis ein deutscher Psychologe ins Kino ging.

German weekly Der Spiegel on our emotion concept Kama Muta www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... #kamamuta

Do you feel kama muta? Psychologists reveal a brand-new emotion If you've ever felt choked up at the end of a happy film, or found yourself tearing up at a wedding, scientists say you might have been feeling 'kama muta'.

me, answering press inquiry:

"We don’t claim to have discovered a new emotion. ... I have seem comments under previous articles along the lines of 'scientists again discover obvious thing'."

Headline writer of the Daily Mail:

"Psychologists reveal a brand-new emotion"

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Què és el 'kama muta', l'emoció que ens estreny la gola quan llegim? Quan era petita un dels meus llibres preferits era L'illa dels dofins blaus, d'Scott O'Dell (publicat per La Galera, amb traducció de Josep Vallverdú i il·lustracions d'Isidre Monés), un llibre d'aven...

a short piece on kama muta in reading fiction, from the Catalan newspaper ara llegim.ara.cat/opinio/kama-...

beautiful anecdote and note on kama muta in psyche.co/notes-to-sel... by @hannahseo.com

oh I have been giving such a lecture also for the last two years. I would love to compare notes and slides!

EASP members open letter to EU If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...

If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
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EASP members open letter to EU If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...

If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

Very surprising that a machine that cannot distinguish between reality and fiction gets its users to hallucinate (too). Sidney lives.

Chilling story by nyt @kashhill.bsky.social

is there something wrong with her fingertips?

Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup The Wreckage They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal governm...

They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....

Kama Muta: The Powerful Emotion Everyone Has But No One Has Heard Of It's a universal feeling so now you can put a name to it.

IFLScience on kama muta: www.iflscience.com/kama-muta-th...

Make 🥄 not 🍴

Sad to hear. We used the textbook he co-authored for several years. I really liked that book.

@climatehuman.bsky.social text is right throughout except in the last paragraph. Anger is not the only emotional force driving us out of complacency and inaction. This movement also grows with compassion and togetherness.

Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles After the Bobcat Fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.

This is what the rest of our lives will look like:

We will look around and try to guess whether it is safe where we are, or whether we should leave, and where to.

Climate change is here, but it's not static. Our world will keep changing until we stop producing climate gases.

A Paradise Built in Hell - Wikipedia

It is totally common! See @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's book en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Parad...

John, this "being proud of the community" sounds very much like the communal emotion that we have called "kama muta" in recent work. Have you come across more reports of emotional reactions like this?

I wish you a good new year Mo!

Changes to the classification

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

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oh wow interesting, thanks.

great article. But please correct the sentence "Today, all humans around the world carry at least a trace of Neanderthal DNA.". Your own article that you link in that sentence does not support this. Instead, it says that Neanderthal DNA shows traces from two earlier waves coming out of Africa.

Giving - Inspiring Power Of Giving (and veggie soup) YouTube video by Get Your Health Up

did not know that, very nice! At an abstract level, the plot sounds to another kama muta classic, below. The similarity is that an initial communal relation is threatened to be replaced by a market relation, but then bounces back www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL9K...

I use this video in my lectures to evoke and exemplify kama muta!

Kama muta: the powerful emotion you didn’t know you had Goosebumps, tears, a sense of solidarity… There’s a name for that feeling, and its manifestations – from Swifties handing out friendship bracelets to strong responses to political messaging – can brin...

excellent write-up of our work on being moved to tears, for which we created the kama muta concept: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

@ruben.the100.ci can you please point me to a source on this development in Germany? Is this written up anywhere? We have the same problem in Norway