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Chapter 15. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
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By Helen Briggs BBC News When it comes to detecting lies, you should trust your instinct, research suggests. We are better at identifying liars when we rely on initial responses rather than thinking about it, say psychologists. Generally we are poor at spotting liars - managing only slightly better than flipping a coin. But our success rate rises when we harness the unconscious mind, according to a report in Psychological Science. "What interested us about the unconscious mind is that it just might really be the seat of where accurate lie detection lives," said Dr Leanne ten Brinke of the University of California, Berkeley. "So if our ability to detect lies is not conscious - we simply can't do this when we're thinking hard about it - then maybe it lives somewhere else, and so we thought one possible explanation was the unconscious mind." When trying to find out if someone is lying, most people rely on cues like someone averting their gaze or appearing nervous. However, research suggests this is not accurate - people perform at only about 50% accuracy in traditional lie detection tasks. Psychologists at the University of California were puzzled by this, as some primates, such as chimps, are able to detect deceit - and evolutionary theory supposes that it maximises survival and reproductive success. Dr Ten Brinke and colleagues devised experiments to test the ability of the unconscious mind to spot a liar, to see if they could do better than the conscious mind. BBC © 2014
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 19420 - Posted: 03.29.2014
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR A large study has linked several common anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills to an increased risk of death, although it's not certain the drugs were the cause. For more than seven years, researchers followed 34,727 people who filled prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications like Valium and Xanax, or sleep aids like Ambien, Sonata and Lunesta, comparing them with 69,418 controls who did not. After adjusting for a wide variety of factors, the researchers found that people who took the drugs had more than double the risk of death. The study appears online in BMJ. The researchers tried to account for the use of other prescribed drugs, age, smoking, alcohol use, socioeconomic status, and other health and behavioral characteristics. Most important, the investigators also controlled for sleep disorders, anxiety disorders and other psychiatric illnesses, all of which are risk factors for mortality. The lead author, Dr. Scott Weich, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Warwick, said that while he and his colleagues were careful to account for as many potential risks as possible, they were not able to control for the severity of the illnesses suffered by the study participants. Still, he said, the research "adds to an accumulating body of evidence that these drugs are dangerous." He added: "I prescribe these drugs, and they are difficult to come off. The less time you spend on them the better." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Depression; Aggression
Link ID: 19419 - Posted: 03.29.2014
by Erika Engelhaupt What gets us hot can be so revealing. For me, the slightest anxiety or excitement can trigger a warm spread across my face. I can feel the blood rushing up my neck and into the thousands of tiny capillaries across my cheeks. I've worn scarves or turtlenecks to job interviews, weather be damned, to keep my burning red neck from betraying my nerves. And the opposite can be true. Have you ever seen someone truly blanch? Given a real fright, the blood can literally drain from a person's face, leaving a white mask. This all happens thanks to the autonomic nervous system, the fight-or-flight control system. Faced with danger, it tells blood vessels to pinch off the flow to the face and extremities, sending more blood to the muscles and body core so you'll be pumped up for either the flight or the fight. Heat-sensing cameras can pick all this up, and in way more detail than my scarf could hide. Our nervous systems are constantly chugging away, largely out of our conscious control, tweaking our blood flow for every emotion. Just think of all the tiny wafts of heat flowing across your face as you negotiate with your boss, or talk to your lover. Feeling a bit anxious? Guilty? Stressed? Sexually aroused, perhaps? There's a researcher out there with a thermal camera that can detect each of those. Even post-traumatic stress disorder may show up in your face's heat map. In a pilot study of bank tellers who have been robbed, a team of researchers in Italy reports in the April 25 Neuroscience that tellers with mild PTSD have amped-up fear responses that show up in their facial heat signature. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013.
Keyword: Emotions; Aggression
Link ID: 19415 - Posted: 03.27.2014
By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN FEELING down? Smile. Cheer up. Put on a happy face. No doubt you've dismissed these bromides from friends and loved ones because everyone knows that you can't feel better just by aping a happy look. Or perhaps you can. New research suggests that it is possible to treat depression by paralyzing key facial muscles with Botox, which prevents patients from frowning and having unhappy-looking faces. In a study forthcoming in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Eric Finzi, a cosmetic dermatologist, and Norman Rosenthal, a professor of psychiatry at Georgetown Medical School, randomly assigned a group of 74 patients with major depression to receive either Botox or saline injections in the forehead muscles whose contraction makes it possible to frown. Six weeks after the injection, 52 percent of the subjects who got Botox showed relief from depression, compared with only 15 percent of those who received the saline placebo. (You might think that patients would easily be able to tell whether they got the placebo or Botox. Actually, it wasn't so obvious: Only about half of the subjects getting Botox guessed correctly. More important, knowing which treatment was received had no significant effect on treatment response.) Other studies over the past several years have found similar effects of Botox on mood. Michael Lewis at Cardiff University reported that nondepressed patients at a cosmetic dermatology clinic receiving Botox injection above the eyes frowned less and felt better than those who did not receive this injection. And M. Axel Wollmer at the University of Basel found that Botox injection was superior to a placebo in a group of depressed patients. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 19410 - Posted: 03.26.2014
by Clare Wilson It's a vicious circle of the cruellest kind. Stress might be causing infertility in women, according to new research. This could explain some cases in which couples are diagnosed as infertile with no apparent cause. Taking longer than usual to conceive can lead to stress, so the problem could become self-perpetuating. A link between everyday life stresses and infertility has long been suspected, but there has been little hard evidence connecting the two. Women receiving fertility treatment are generally advised to avoid stress, but not so the average person trying to conceive. An estimated one in seven couples in the UK have fertility problems and, in about a quarter of those, there is no known medical explanation, and they are given a diagnosis of "unexplained infertility". To explore the role of stress, Courtney Lynch at Ohio State University in Columbus and her colleagues collected saliva samples from 373 women in the US who had just started trying to conceive naturally and measured levels of an enzyme called alpha-amylase, a marker of stress. After one year of regular unprotected sex, about 13 per cent of the couples had failed to get pregnant, the standard definition of infertility. The third of women who had the highest alpha-amylase levels were twice as likely to be in the infertile group as the third with the lowest levels. In a previous study, Lynch's team found that those with higher levels of the stress enzyme were slightly less likely to conceive in their first month of trying. But this is the first time that alpha-amylase has been linked to clinical infertility. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Stress; Aggression
Link ID: 19400 - Posted: 03.24.2014
Want to live a long, dementia-free life? Stress your cells out. That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that heightened cellular stress causes brain cells to produce a protein that staves off Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. The work could lead to new ways to diagnose or treat such diseases. "This paper is very impressive," says neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, who was not involved in the new work. "It puts a finger on a particular pathway that can provide some explanation as to why some people are more susceptible to Alzheimer's." Alzheimer's disease, characterized by a progressive loss of memory and cognition, affects an estimated 44.4 million people worldwide, mostly over the age of 65. The illness has been linked to the accumulation of certain proteins in the brain, but what causes symptoms has been unclear. That's because the brains of some elderly people without dementia have the same clumps of so-called amyloid β and τ proteins typically associated with Alzheimer's. The new study deals with a protein called repressor element 1-silencing transcription factor (REST), which turns genes and off. Scientists knew that REST played a key role in fetal brain development by controlling the activity of certain genes, but they thought it was absent in adult brains. However, when Bruce Yankner, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, looked at all the genes and proteins that change in brains as people age, he found that REST levels begin increasing again when a person hits their 30s. Stumped as to why, he and his colleagues isolated human and mouse brain cells and probed what factors altered REST levels and what consequences those levels had. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Alzheimers; Aggression
Link ID: 19389 - Posted: 03.20.2014
By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Statins may be useful in treating advanced multiple sclerosis (MS), say UK researchers. Early trial results in The Lancet show the cholesterol-lowering pills slow brain shrinkage in people with MS. The University College London (UCL) scientists say large trials can now begin. These will check whether statins benefit MS patients by slowing progression of the disease and easing their symptoms. MS is a major cause of disability, affecting nerves in the brain and spinal cord, which causes problems with muscle movement, balance and vision. Currently there is no cure, although there are treatments that can help in the early stages of the disease. Usually, after around 10 years, around half of people with MS will go on to develop more advanced disease - known as secondary progressive MS. It is this later stage disease that Dr Jeremy Chataway and colleagues at UCL hope to treat with low cost statins. To date, no licensed drugs have shown a convincing impact on this later stage of the disease. For their phase two trial, which is published in the Lancet, Dr Chataway's team randomly assigned 140 people with secondary progressive MS to receive either 80mg of a statin called simvastatin or a placebo for two years. The high, daily dose of simvastatin was well tolerated and slowed brain shrinkage by 43% over two years compared with the placebo. Dr Chataway said: "Caution should be taken regarding over-interpretation of our brain imaging findings, because these might not necessarily translate into clinical benefit. However, our promising results warrant further investigation in larger phase three disability-driven trials." BBC © 2014
Keyword: Multiple Sclerosis
Link ID: 19383 - Posted: 03.19.2014
By FLORENCE WILLIAMS So there's this baby who has swallowed a .22-caliber bullet. The mother rushes into a drugstore, crying, "What shall I do?" "Give him a bottle of castor oil," replies the druggist, "but don't point him at anybody." Whether you find this joke amusing depends on many more variables than you probably ever realized. It depends on a common cultural understanding of the technical properties of castor oil. It depends, as many funny jokes do and as any fourth grader can attest, on our own squeamishness about bodily functions. Getting less obvious, your sense of humor can also depend on your age, your gender, your I.Q., your political inclinations, how extroverted you are and the health of your dopamine reward circuit. If you think all this analysis sounds a bit, well, unfunny, E. B. White would back you up. He once wrote that picking apart jokes is like dissecting frogs: Few people are interested, and the subject always dies in the end. Fortunately, the cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems isn't afraid of being unfunny. Humor is worthy of serious academic study, he argues in his book, "Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why," (Read an excerpt.) because it yields insights into how our brains process a complex world and how that, in turn, makes us who we are. Though animals laugh, humans spend more time laughing than exhibiting any other emotion. But what gives some people a better sense of humor than others? Not surprisingly, extroverts tend to laugh more and produce more jokes; yet in tests measuring the ability to write cartoon captions, people who were more neurotic, assertive, manipulative and dogmatic were actually funnier. As the old saw holds, many of the best comics really are miserable. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 19373 - Posted: 03.18.2014
By Pippa Stephens Health reporter, BBC News People are less likely to yawn when others do as they get older, a study has found. Contagious yawning is linked more closely to a person's age than their ability to empathise, as previously thought, US-based scientists said. It also showed a stronger link to age than tiredness or energy levels. Researchers are now looking at whether the ability to catch yawns from other people is inherited, with the hope of helping treat mental health disorders. Autism and schizophrenia sufferers are reportedly less able to catch yawns, researchers said, so understanding the genes that might code for contagious yawning could illuminate new pathways for treatment. In the study, published in the journal Plos One, 328 participants were shown a three-minute video showing other people yawning. Each subject had to click a button every time they yawned. Levels of tiredness Overall, 68% of the participants yawned. Of those, 82% of people aged under 25 yawned, compared with 60% of people aged between 25 and 49, and 41% of people aged over 50. Dr Elizabeth Cirulli, assistant professor of medicine at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, led the study. She said: "This is the first study to look at a whole bunch of factors. It is the largest study, in terms of the number of people involved, to date." Dr Cirulli said she did not know why contagious yawning decreased with age. BBC © 2014
Keyword: Emotions; Aggression
Link ID: 19364 - Posted: 03.15.2014
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Angry enough to have a heart attack? It might actually happen. A new analysis has found that outbursts of anger can significantly increase the risk for irregular heart rhythms, angina, strokes and heart attacks. Researchers combined data from nine studies of anger outbursts among patients who had had heart attacks, strokes and related problems. Most of the studies used a widely accepted anger assessment scale; one depended on a questionnaire administered to patients. They found that in the two hours after an outburst of anger, the relative risk of angina and heart attack increased by nearly five times, while the risk of ischemic stroke and cardiac arrhythmia increased by more than three times. The findings appeared in The European Heart Journal. The researchers stressed that the actual likelihood of having an anger-induced heart attack remains small. Still, for people with other risks for heart disease, any increase in risk is potentially dangerous. The senior author, Dr. Murray A. Mittleman, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, said that little is known about ways to prevent anger from causing heart problems. "Are there specific behavioral interventions that would be effective? Medicines?" he asked. "There have been proposals for both," he added, "but we need more and better research." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 19363 - Posted: 03.15.2014
|By Allie Wilkinson Vivaldi versus the Beatles. Both great. But your brain may be processing the musical information differently for each. That's according to research in the journal NeuroImage. [Vinoo Alluri et al, From Vivaldi to Beatles and back: Predicting lateralized brain responses to music] For the study, volunteers had their brains scanned by functional MRI as they listened to two musical medleys containing songs from different genres. The scans identified brain regions that became active during listening. One medley included four instrumental pieces and the other consisted of songs from the B side of Abbey Road. Computer algorithms were used to identify specific aspects of the music, which the researchers were able to match with specific, activated brain areas. The researchers found that vocal and instrumental music get treated differently. While both hemispheres of the brain deal with musical features, the presence of lyrics shifts the processing of musical features to the left auditory cortex. These results suggest that the brain's hemispheres are specialized for different kinds of sound processing. A finding revealed but what you might call instrumental analysis. © 2014 Scientific American,
Keyword: Hearing; Aggression
Link ID: 19359 - Posted: 03.13.2014
Imagine you're calling a stranger—a possible employer, or someone you've admired from a distance—on the telephone for the first time. You want to make a good impression, and you've rehearsed your opening lines. What you probably don't realize is that the person you're calling is going to size you up the moment you utter "hello." Psychologists have discovered that the simple, two-syllable sound carries enough information for listeners to draw conclusions about the speaker's personality, such as how trustworthy he or she is. The discovery may help improve computer-generated and voice-activated technologies, experts say. "They've confirmed that people do make snap judgments when they hear someone's voice," says Drew Rendall, a psychologist at the University of Lethbridge in Canada. "And the judgments are made on very slim evidence." Psychologists have shown that we can determine a great deal about someone's personality by listening to them. But these researchers looked at what others hear in someone's voice when listening to a lengthy speech, says Phil McAleer, a psychologist at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and the lead author of the new study. No one had looked at how short a sentence we need to hear before making an assessment, although other studies had shown that we make quick judgments about people's personalities from a first glance at their faces. "You can pick up clues about how dominant and trustworthy someone is within the first few minutes of meeting a stranger, based on visual cues," McAleer says. To find out if there is similar information in a person's voice, he and his colleagues decided to test "one of the quickest and shortest of sociable words, 'Hello.' " © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Language; Aggression
Link ID: 19358 - Posted: 03.13.2014
by Bruce Bower Chimpanzees possess a flexible, humanlike sensitivity to the mental states of others, even strangers from another species, researchers suggest March 11 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Empathy's roots go back at least to the common ancestor of humans and chimps, they say. Psychologist Matthew Campbell and biologist Frans de Waal, both of Emory University in Atlanta, treated chimps' tendency to yawn when viewing videotapes of others yawning as a sign of spontaneous empathy. Their research follows other scientists' observations that young chimps mimic scientists' yawns (SN Online: 10/16/13). Nineteen chimps living in an outdoor research facility yawned when they saw the same action from chimps that they lived with, researchers and staff they had seen before and people who were new to them. Unfamiliar chimps and baboons failed to elicit contagious yawning. As in the wild, unfamiliar chimps were probably viewed as threats. Chimps in the study hadn't seen baboons before. Having socially connected with facility workers, chimps reacted empathically to human strangers who yawned, the researchers propose. Imitating others' facial expressions represents a rapid way to forge empathic ties, Campbell says. His research didn't test whether chimps spend a lot of time trying to read others' thoughts and feelings, a more complex type of empathy. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013.
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 19354 - Posted: 03.12.2014
By INNA GAISLER-SALOMON WE intuitively understand, and scientific studies confirm, that if a woman experiences stress during her pregnancy, it can affect the health of her baby. But what about stress that a woman experiences before getting pregnant — perhaps long before? It may seem unlikely that the effects of such stress could be directly transmitted to the child. After all, stress experienced before pregnancy is not part of a mother's DNA, nor does it overlap with the nine months of fetal development. Nonetheless, it is undeniable that stress experienced during a person's lifetime is often correlated with stress-related problems in that person's offspring — and even in the offspring's offspring. Perhaps the best-studied example is that of the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Research shows that survivors' children have greater-than-average chances of having stress-related psychiatric illnesses like post-traumatic stress disorder, even without being exposed to higher levels of stress in their own lives. Similar correlations are found in other populations. Studies suggest that genocides in Rwanda, Nigeria, Cambodia, Armenia and the former Yugoslavia have brought about distinct psychopathological symptoms in the offspring of survivors. What explains this pattern? Does trauma lead to suboptimal parenting, which leads to abnormal behavior in children, which later affects their own parenting style? Or can you biologically inherit the effects of your parents' stress, after all? It may be the latter. In a study that I, together with my colleagues Hiba Zaidan and Micah Leshem, recently published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, we found that a relatively mild form of stress in female rats, before pregnancy, affected their offspring in a way that appeared to be unrelated to parental care. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Stress; Aggression
Link ID: 19339 - Posted: 03.10.2014
by Hal Hodson WHETHER striding ahead with pride or slouching sullenly, we all broadcast our emotions through body language. Now a computer has learned to interpret those unspoken cues as well as you or I. Antonio Camurri of the University of Genoa in Italy and colleagues have built a system which uses the depth-sensing, motion-capture camera in Microsoft's Kinect to determine the emotion conveyed by a person's body movements. Using computers to capture emotions has been done before, but typically focuses on facial analysis or voice recording. Reading someone's emotional state from the way they walk across a room or their posture as they sit at a desk means they don't have to speak or look into a camera. "It's a nice achievement," says Frank Pollick, professor of psychology at the University of Glasgow, UK. "Being able to use the Kinect for this is really useful." The system uses the Kinect camera to build a stick figure representation of a person that includes information on how their head, torso, hands and shoulders are moving. Software looks for body positions and movements widely recognised in psychology as indicative of certain emotional states. For example, if a person's head is bowed and their shoulders are drooping, that might indicate sadness or fear. Adding in the speed of movement – slow indicates sadness, while fast indicates fear – allows the software to determine how someone is feeling. In tests, the system correctly identified emotions in the stick figures 61.3 per cent of the time, compared with a 61.9 per cent success rate for 60 human volunteers (arXiv.org/1402.5047). Camurri is using the system to build games that teach children with autism to recognise and express emotions through full-body movements. Understanding how another person feels can be difficult for people with autism, and recognising fear is more difficult than happiness. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Emotions; Aggression
Link ID: 19334 - Posted: 03.08.2014
Clara Moskowitz When mathematicians describe equations as beautiful, they are not lying. Brain scans show that their minds respond to beautiful equations in the same way other people respond to great paintings or masterful music. The finding could bring neuroscientists closer to understanding the neural basis of beauty, a concept that is surprisingly hard to define. In the study, researchers led by Semir Zeki of University College London asked 16 mathematicians to rate 60 equations on a scale ranging from "ugly" to "beautiful." Two weeks later, the mathematicians viewed the same equations and rated them again while lying inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. The scientists found that the more beautiful an equation was to the mathematician, the more activity his or her brain showed in an area called the A1 field of the medial orbitofrontal cortex. The orbitofrontal cortex is associated with emotion, and this particular region of it has shown in previous tests to be correlated with emotional responses to visual and musical beauty. The researchers wondered whether the trend would extend to mathematical beauty, which "has a much deeper intellectual source than visual or musical beauty, which are more 'sensible' and perceptually based," they wrote in a paper reporting their results published on 13 February in Frontiers of Human Neuroscience. Investigating mathematical beauty allowed the researchers to test the role of culture and learning in aesthetic appreciation. The scientists hypothesized that while people with no musical or artistic training can still appreciate Beethoven's and Michelangelo's works, only those who understand the meaning behind certain mathematical formulas would find them beautiful. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group,
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 19327 - Posted: 03.06.2014
Virginia Hughes When Brian Dias became a father last October, he was, like any new parent, mindful of the enormous responsibility that lay before him. From that moment on, every choice he made could affect his newborn son's physical and psychological development. But, unlike most new parents, Dias was also aware of the influence of his past experiences — not to mention those of his parents, his grandparents and beyond. Where one's ancestors lived, or how much they valued education, can clearly have effects that pass down through the generations. But what about the legacy of their health: whether they smoked, endured famine or fought in a war? As a postdoc in Kerry Ressler's laboratory at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Dias had spent much of the two years before his son's birth studying these kinds of questions in mice. Specifically, he looked at how fear associated with a particular smell affects the animals and leaves an imprint on the brains of their descendants. Dias had been exposing male mice to acetophenone — a chemical with a sweet, almond-like smell — and then giving them a mild foot shock. After being exposed to this treatment five times a day for three days, the mice became reliably fearful, freezing in the presence of acetophenone even when they received no shock. Ten days later, Dias allowed the mice to mate with unexposed females. When their young grew up, many of the animals were more sensitive to acetophenone than to other odours, and more likely to be startled by an unexpected noise during exposure to the smell. Their offspring — the 'grandchildren' of the mice trained to fear the smell — were also jumpier in the presence of acetophenone. What's more, all three generations had larger-than-normal 'M71 glomeruli', structures where acetophenone-sensitive neurons in the nose connect with neurons in the olfactory bulb. In the January issue of Nature Neuroscience1, Dias and Ressler suggested that this hereditary transmission of environmental information was the result of epigenetics — chemical changes to the genome that affect how DNA is packaged and expressed without altering its sequence. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group,
Keyword: Epigenetics; Aggression
Link ID: 19325 - Posted: 03.05.2014
By LISA FELDMAN BARRETT CAN you detect someone's emotional state just by looking at his face? It sure seems like it. In everyday life, you can often "read" what someone is feeling with the quickest of glances. Hundreds of scientific studies support the idea that the face is a kind of emotional beacon, clearly and universally signaling the full array of human sentiments, from fear and anger to joy and surprise. Increasingly, companies like Apple and government agencies like the Transportation Security Administration are banking on this transparency, developing software to identify consumers' moods or training programs to gauge the intent of airline passengers. The same assumption is at work in the field of mental health, where illnesses like autism and schizophrenia are often treated in part by training patients to distinguish emotions by facial expression. But this assumption is wrong. Several recent and forthcoming research papers from the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, which I direct, suggest that human facial expressions, viewed on their own, are not universally understood. The pioneering work in the field of "emotion recognition" was conducted in the 1960s by a team of scientists led by the psychologist Paul Ekman. Research subjects were asked to look at photographs of facial expressions (smiling, scowling and so on) and match them to a limited set of emotion words (happiness, anger and so on) or to stories with phrases like "Her husband recently died." Most subjects, even those from faraway cultures with little contact with Western civilization, were extremely good at this task, successfully matching the photos most of the time. Over the following decades, this method of studying emotion recognition has been replicated by other scientists hundreds of times. In recent years, however, at my laboratory we began to worry that this research method was flawed. In particular, we suspected that by providing subjects with a preselected set of emotion words, these experiments had inadvertently "primed" the subjects — in effect, hinting at the answers — and thus skewed the results. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 19316 - Posted: 03.03.2014
Sara Reardon Two monkeys sit at computer screens, eyeing one another as they wait for a promised reward: apple juice. Each has a choice — it can either select a symbol that results in juice being shared equally, or pick one that delivers most of the juice to itself. But being selfish is risky. If its partner also chooses not to share, neither gets much juice. This game, the 'prisoner's dilemma', is a classic test of strategy that involves the simultaneous evaluation of an opponent's thinking. Researchers have now discovered — and manipulated — specific brain circuits in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) that seem to be involved in the animals' choices, and in their assessments of their partners' choices. Investigating the connections could shed light on how social context affects decision-making in humans, and how disorders that affect social skills, such as autism spectrum disorder, disrupt brain circuitry. "Once we have identified that there are particular neural signals necessary to drive the processes, we can begin to tinker," says Michael Platt, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Neurobiologists Keren Haroush and Ziv Williams of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, zoomed in on neural circuits in rhesus macaques by implanting electrode arrays into a brain area called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), which is associated with rewards and decision-making. The arrays recorded the activity of hundreds of individual neurons. When the monkeys played the prisoner's dilemma (see 'A juicy experiment') against a computer program, they rarely chose to cooperate. But when they played with another monkey that they could see, they were several times more likely to choose to share the juice. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Attention; Aggression
Link ID: 19297 - Posted: 02.26.2014
|By Lila Stanners Beauty seems mysterious and subjective. Scientists have long attempted to explain why the same object can strike some individuals as breathtaking and others as repulsive. Now a study finds that applying stimulation to a certain brain area enhances people's aesthetic appreciation of visual images. First, participants viewed 70 abstract paintings and sketches and 80 representational (realistic) paintings and photographs and rated how much they liked each one. Then they rated a similar set of images after receiving transcranial direct-current stimulation or sham stimulation. Transcranial direct-current stimulation sends small electrical impulses to the brain through electrodes attached to the head. The technique is noninvasive and cannot be felt, so subjects in the trials were not aware when they received real stimulation. The researchers aimed the impulses at the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, an area just behind the brow that is known to be a region critical for emotional processing. They found that the stimulation increased participants' appreciation of representational images, according to the study published online in October 2013 inSocial Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. The scientists believe the stimulation facilitated a shift from object recognition to aesthetic appraisal for the figurative images; the abstract art was probably being processed by a different area of the brain. This study is one of many recent successful attempts at subtly altering cognition with noninvasive brain stimulation. Some experiments have found that stimulating certain areas allows people to solve math problems or puzzles that formerly had them stumped. Other work suggests these techniques can enhance motor learning, helping athletes or musicians improve at a new sport or a new instrument more rapidly. Experts are quick to point out, however, that these effects are modest enhancements at best—thought induction remains firmly in the realm of science fiction. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Emotions; Aggression
Link ID: 19295 - Posted: 02.26.2014


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Relaxation is dangerous. There you are, yawning and scratching as you ready yourself for your holiday, thinking of sunlit uplands or broad stretches of sea - and you immediately lose concentration on the things that matter.
Of course, it's lovely you are having time away by yourself, with your friends, with your newest lover, with your family.
And then, there's the fact that we are all doing it at once. That's so much fun, kind of exhilarating to be all streaming away from the quotidian, to sleep more, eat more, swim and walk. Yes! We are all focused on relaxation.
It's also delicious to get 10 straight days off in exchange for three days of holiday pay - and that's just about the amount of time it takes to really switch off.
But while we were laughing with our friends and family, the federal government continued with its merry mayhem. It's what, when I was a girl reporter last century, was called taking it out with the garbage (or a phrase like that).
That was the expression we used when government statements, revealing some new horror, were released just as the weekend was starting. Or the odd minister would make some comment that they knew would sink without trace because no one was concentrating very hard.
So, Thursday night, just as I'm deciding whether to pack four pairs of shoes (or five!) for a three-day trip, news comes that a little Australian boy is being deported. In true, utterly selfish fashion, I only listened with half an ear. The other half was tuned in to the traffic reports along Holiday Highway.
Actually, the little boy is not being deported. It's his mum, Lisa Le, 30, who is being sent back to Vietnam. His dad, David Nguyen, is Australian.
But David and Lisa are separated (like so many Australian families) and Assistant Immigration Minister Michaelia Cash has apparently decided it is not in the public interest to grant Le a partner visa to stay in Australia.
And why aren't we making a fuss about this? It happened just as we were going on holidays. Few people were around to read Nguyen's heartfelt plea.
''I don't think my son deserves to be without a father,'' Nguyen told the ABC. ''He deserves to stay here, he deserves to have a family and she should have a visa to stay back here.''
Could someone please explain to Cash that children having access to their parents sounds like the public interest to most regular people and that just because two people can't live together doesn't meant they can't be decent parents to their son here in Australia.
So far, my understanding of the Abbott government is that it isn't that keen on the public and, moreover, it wishes the public never expressed its interest.
Here's another good example, which happened while we were sleeping.
Assistant Infrastructure Minister Jamie Briggs was appearing on Andrew Bolt's weekly pro-Liberal rant, discussing Sydney's second airport. And then, according to Rosie Lewis, a reporter at The Australian, he let us know that if locals got too antsy, the federal government would consider passing ''special legislation'' through Parliament if it felt that construction of the city's second airport was taking too long.
''We will take necessary action to move it on,'' Briggs told Bolt. ''We're not going to let this be dragged on by professional protesters.''
The federal government will decide who has the right to be interested and the manner in which they express that interest. And it's not the people who actually live there.
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Now, disability doesn't get much of a run in this country, even on a good day, but here's what snuck in on Easter Sunday: a proposal by Kevin Andrews that independent doctors may be called in to reassess the ability of disability pensioners to undertake work.
Let me tell you what happened in Britain when this change was made. Mark Wood, 44, had obsessive compulsive disorder, Asperger syndrome and many phobias. But Atos Healthcare, working on behalf of Britain's conservative government, deemed Wood fit to work. Just 16 weeks later, with all but £40 of his pension stripped away, he was found dead of malnutrition.
Anyhow, that's just three days. Three days when we weren't paying attention. God knows what else they've done or plan to do but I urge you to concentrate on every little thing this government does.
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A pulp and paper mill part-owned by billionaire Oleg Deripaska agreed Monday to compensate about 2,000 workers who have been struggling to feed their families since the plant on the shores of Lake Baikal closed last year.
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A $7 million federal grant program to help train laid-off autoworkers and other unemployed people for new careers may not seem like much, but Education Secretary Arne Duncan said it was money immediately available and more help will be on the way.
Ford Spends $125 Million To Bail Out Parts SupplierJune 4, 2009 9:28 am | Articles | Comments
Ford Motor Co. will provide $125 million or more in debtor-in-possesion financing to Visteon Corp. as the automotive parts supplier reorganizes under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday, Visteon, which filed for bankruptcy protection last week, said its former parent company would provide aid and also take assignment of Visteon's asset-backed loans under a revolving credit facility.
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General Motors Corp. took two key steps toward its downsizing on Tuesday, striking a tentative agreement to sell its Hummer brand and obtaining the first payout of federal loans for its European division. Detroit-based GM said it has reached a memorandum of understanding with a buyer for Hummer, though it did not name the buyer or the price.
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General Motors Corp. said Monday that its U.S. bankruptcy filing will have no impact on its thriving China operations, reaffirming what it called its "aggressive growth strategy." "Our operations across China will operate normally," Kevin Wale, president and managing director of the GM China Group, said in a statement.
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Economists expect an index measuring the manufacturing sector's health to have contracted at a slower pace in May than in the previous month. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect the index from the Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, will come in at 42 for May compared with 40.
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With the average U.S. bridge approaching time for replacement, researchers at the University of South Carolina said Thursday that they'll work with a team of experts to develop a quicker method of detecting cracks and early signs of wear on the structures.
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A person briefed on General Motors Corp.'s plans says the company on Monday will identify the 14 factories it will close as it heads toward a likely Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing. The person says United Auto Workers officials in Detroit have told plant-level union leaders that the company will make the announcement, not the union.
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German officials readied for another try at a rescue deal for General Motors Corp.'s Opel subsidiary after last-minute financing demands stalled overnight talks Thursday, officials said. Germany had hoped for an agreement to shield automaker Opel — which employs 25,000 people there — from a looming GM bankruptcy by making it legally independent under a trustee.
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The new EZS 350XL tow tractor from Jungheinrich can tow several trailers together and has a capacity of 11,000 lbs. The truck is built with a 2.8 kW, 24 V AC drive motor for powerful acceleration and high travel speeds, with significant energy efficiency, longer operating times and low maintenance (through the omission of carbon brushes).


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Special Issue "Signalling Molecules and Signal Transduction in Cells 2014"
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342 comments found
Apologies if this is a previously asked questions, but I didn't have time to read through every response to find the answer to this pre-purchase question.
I love how you have the different functionality of the "Darkroom" and the "Loft" – however on the "All Projects" page – it appears that every portfolio project has an actual single post page.
My question is can you have some that open only as a lightbox image – and others in the same portfolio take you to the actual single post page?
Basically I have some projects that don't require a single post page – just a lightbox, and other projects will require a single post page.
Thanks in advance!
Hey there & thanks for your interest.
Hmmm, the 'link to post' & 'link to lightbox' are options set via any page using the 'portfolio' template. So, unfortunately it's not something you set via each portfolio post.
Best Regards Jesse
Hi Jesse,
Love the theme . Just one question: how I can prevent the published date from being displayed on the portfolio?
In the theme customiser > under general settings. You can un-tick the 'Include Post Meta In title' box. This will apply to blog posts as well though.
Best Regards Jesse
Hi, I love the theme, but I can't seem to find where I can set up my site as the minimal one you have. Can you guide me? I just need simple white pages with no big header sections.
Also, I don't have any space between paragraphs. How can I fix that? http://asildastudio.com/about/
I figured out how to set up the minimal style. But my pagination to the older projects doesn't work on the home page. http://asildastudio.com/page/2/ What do I need to change?
Hey there & thanks for the purchase!
I just took a quick look at the site and it seems to be functioning well? Or did you just increase the posts per page?
Let me know, Regards Jesse
Yeah. I can put it back just to show you the issue. Or maybe you know already how to fix it. And I can't seem to find where I can just put Previous and Next under the portfolio items. I tried editing the footer.php file and it didn't help for that.
Hmm, I dont know what the problem is though? I have to see it in order to see whats actually going on. I can't replicate the problem on my own server. If you check out the demo site (http://demo.visualkicks.com/dimple/standard/projects/page/2/) it's working fine. So it might be the way you have the portfolio items setup?
Re the Previous & Next > at the moment it displays the title of the next post and previous post etc. Heres a snippit of code to change that. (footer.php is right file) – http://snippi.com/s/sx71kn8
Best Regards Jesse
Hey Jesse,
I just bought Dimple, because I love the way it looks and in your video demo it looked manageable. I've tinkered a bit with WP themes in the past, but am still very much a newbie. I'm not entirely clear on the difference between posts, pages, panels and portfolios and when you one over the other. I basically want to use your layout in your standard demo and swap out the content. Any resources you can point me to? Thanks. Love this theme!
Hey there, thank you for the purchase!
1) A post is a blog post – it will only show up on your blog page.
2) Portfolio Posts will only show up on pages that have a page template of 'portfolio'. This way we can have the blog and the portfolio areas separate. Most people who only want a portfolio style site probably wont use blog posts at all.
3) Panel Posts will only show up on pages that have a page template of 'home'. They are special for the home page only. (if you view the theme page on here youll see a breakdown of what they do)
4) You can install the demo content of the standard demo site. Navigate to tools > importat > wordpress > install wordpress installer > upload the /demo-content/standard.xml > tick the download all attachments.
After the demo content is installed, just setup your nav menu and your front page (settings > reading).
Let me know how you go! Best Regards Jesse
that totally clears things up! thank you so much! you're awesome!
Hello, Thax for nice theme.
But I got some problem on customizing. It doesn't come out the text I written in the post page. I can see just like this "[...]" Help me! what's the problem?http://yosoymihee.cafe24.com/photo http://yosoymihee.cafe24.com/archives/category/category
WordPress does that when you choose to use "post excerpt" instead of post content. The post excerpt length is set in the theme customiser under the tab "general settings". Im assuming you haven't set the length but are choosing to use the post excerpt?
I can't do much though without being logged into your site.
Best Regards Jesse
One more, I'd like to install and change Korean font. Default Korean is not good.
.wf-active body {
font-family: 'NanumGothic';
font-size: 48px;
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
google.load( "webfont", "1" );
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
WebFont.load({ custom: {
families: [ "NanumGothic" ],
urls: [ "http://fontface.kr/NanumGothic/css" ]
fontface.kr? ?? ??? ??? ???
So, need to attach this code on style.css. But, I don't know the part attached. Sorry for bad english. hope you understand me. Thank you.http://yosoymihee.cafe24.com/
Your english is great
You don't need to do any of that stuff above. You can copy paste this http://snippi.com/s/1fpz06v into dashboard > theme settings > custom css.
Also it's IMPORTANT to change all the fonts in the theme customiser to "default" especially for the buttons, menus, typography etc. http://d.pr/i/ZQdZ
This will make all the fonts in the them use Nanum Gothic. If you only want the body and paragraph fonts to be nanum change it so its just "body, p {" instead of all the h1,h2 etc
Best Regards Jesse
Got solved! Thank you so much for your reply! You're nice.
Great! glad it all worked out. Just let me know if you need anything else.
Hey Nice theme…
Does the homepage come with a slider at all?
Hey there,
The panels can be made into a slider (see the demo homepage examples) OR you can include sliders within a panel (image slider like a portfolio post).
Best Regards Jesse
Brill im trying to re-create this sort of simple idea – seems possible? http://aarkcollective.com I also would like the slider to fade out and over like this: http://www.northbounddesign.com/ and lastly can the sidebar have widgets in it at all? Hopefully it's a yes to all this and you have a sale
By the way your like function is broken on all portfolio pages: http://demo.visualkicks.com/dimple/standard/the-loft/
Hey Rich, yes something like that would be possible. The slider wouldn't be able to fade out like that though as that functionality isn't built into the theme. You would need to contact a web developer to do something like that for you.
Im not too sure which sidebar you are refering to, but all sidebars can had widgets yes.
ps. thanks for letting us know about the like button on portfolios, well get that fixed up
Regards Jesse
I think I can deal with the fade in out scenario
Hi, I really like this theme but have a quick question. I see that it uses Isotope on the portfolio pages but the css transitions aren't included. If I added the necessary CSS code would the transitions on the portfolio items work or have they been removed for a reason?
Hey There! It's just an aesthetic decision that we took the transitions out. All we did was change the css transition speed from 0.3 seconds to 0 seconds. So it's an easy change.
Best Regards Jesse
Have you also considered adding a masonry portfolio with load more etc, would be an awesome feature And I wondered if you had thought more on a 4 or 5 grid portfolio?
At the moment there are no plans to add that in, it is do-able though. We're currently working on a new item based solely for freelance / business portfolios that includes all those features, so we would rather get that out instead of hacking at dimple – for the time being.
Regards Jesse
That's ok, sounds cool what your up to next, any chance you could email me a preview screen so I can see what your up to?
I suppose this is sort of a masonry really isn't it, not totally but it may do for me: http://demo.visualkicks.com/dimple/standard/projects/
Well our next item doesn't have a certain layout. We're trying to create "the only portfolio theme you will ever need". Taking the theme customiser to the next level, we're hoping to create a universal style template where everything is changeable / doable.
We don't really want to send people screens of it before its done though sorry.
Hey VisualKicks, Right off the top I love the theme, great job. I did have a quick question though- How can I insert an image and a background in the page title like the one on the example page Post Author Listing? It's probably right in front of me for the option I'm sure. Thanks in advance
Hey there, thanks for the purchase! If you go to users > "the user you want to edit" > set the background image url.
As far as colors and parallax go it will user whatever is has been set for blog page.
Thanks for answering my question so quickly! One more question I have- on the portfolio pages I noticed some have the option to see all portfolios and click through at the top of the page (ex. THE CAT TREE) under the title, how can I remove that (ex. IT'S ALL SAIGON) option? Thanks in advance!
Hi, It's all saigon has the title set to "hidden" – obviously though you might not want to hide the entire title. If you only want to hide the meta & navigation if you go into the theme customizer, under "general settings" tab, you can disable portfolio title meta. So if will look like the minimal version titles – http://demo.visualkicks.com/dimple/minimal/portfolio/hold-fast/
Best Regards Jesse
Hello !
I'm interested in your very well done template ! 3 questions :
- Can we add as much panels as we want in the home page ? Let's say I want to add multiple panels just like the one with the asian girl, is it possible ? - Can we have mutliple pages with the same type of layout as the home page ? - Can we add the full-size map pretty much everywhere ?
Thanks a lot
Hey Matt!
1. Yes you can have unlimited panels as they are a custom post type. 2. Yeah sure – that's absolutely possible. 3. Yes the home page template can be on more then 1 page. But if you choose to display panels on the home page it will display all the panels that have been published.
Best Regards Jesse
Hi Bud,
Ok all bought 2 questions if you wouldn't mind please.http://demo.cornwallitservices.nhs.uk/dimple/
1) I want to only use a background image on a couple of my slides, but the default slider height is too small to fit the correct size of image, how/where do I increase the slider height so it fits the images correctly please
2) On the slider I also want to change the next/previous arrows to be large and white only – how/where in the CSS is this please?
Very impressed though lots of cool features Rich
I just added this to one of the slides, sure this isn't the correct way to do it though:
Hey Rich & thanks for the purchase!
1) The panel slider height is dynamically taken from the tallest slide. Which is based of the content of the slide. So if you add some content in it will increase the height. Obviously if you don't want content, you can just > create a panel > set as gallery format > add images > set gallery style to slider > remove the panel padding. Also, set the home page to "list" panels instead of slider if that were the case.
2) You can change the colour of the arrows in the theme customiser under the "slider" tab. To increase the size though, you would need to use custom css. Probably only targeting the panel slider and fullwidth media sliders would be best. Something like this will do the trick. http://snippi.com/s/5vv6p0l
Let me know if you have any other questions, thanks Jesse
I failed to mention you can copy paste custom css in dashboard > theme settings > custom css.
Hi Bud, 2 more questions sorry,
Ok firstly i need the slider background to be a set height, with no padding, no content or anything, but it must show the entire height of the background image, currently it looks set to be 200px high or so.
Secondly I need/want to create a child theme for this theme, I have done it in the normal way but WP is moaning that it is broken saying:
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Sorry bud, i'm struggling to achieve what I want from the slider, I essentially need the slider on my homepage to be the same in style as the http://aarkcollective.com/ site, simply speaking I want background/or images in the slider to be a set height and scroll through accordingly (they also need to be linkable to pages and posts, lastly I also need the transitions changing, is this a manual job in the JS or are you planning to add this to theme customiser?
Emailed you
Seriously need your help bud – all sorts of weird things happening
Right I have cheated LOL, included an image which is transparent as media only then put an image background in, this then keeps the height as I wanted
Question though, how do I link the slide to click through to a page or post now?: http://demo.cornwallitservices.nhs.uk/dimple/
If parallax is ticked though the background image seems to repeat is that a bug? or is there a fix? – so sorry for all the questions
Hey Rich, i'll just go over all of the above and check the emails and respond in a single comment to make it a bit easier on us both
Sorry for all the comments – awesome service on support bud
Hi guys,
LOVING the theme so far!
An issue: when I set a portfolio item's 'Media Background Image', it also inserts this background image into the slider? I assume it's because it uploads it to this area – http://d.pr/i/laAp and that's where the slider items are taken from?
It also seems that the check box for 'Media Background Image Stretch' does the opposite of what it is supposed to. The background image stretches when I have this un-ticked.
Any help greatly appreciated.
1) Correct. You can upload background images directly through "media" in the dashboard. This way they wont be attached to a post.
2) Hmm, well thats interesting. Could it be your image is really really large and when you check background image stretch it has to "shrink" in order to get the full width of the photo in? For example if you image is 2000px wide but your window is only 1280px wide, the image will be shrunk to fit.
Let me know, Cheers Jesse
I have just purchased the dimple template, I would like to work from the standard.xml, it isn't bringing the data across when using the plug in in wordpress.
Can you please supply me an updated export xml or let me know what it may be if possible.
Thanks in advance.
Hey there & thanks for the purchase! The theme comes with both the minimal xml and standard xml. It's in the folder "demo content".
You can install it by going to tools > import > wordpress > install wordpress importer > upload the xml file. You then get given the option to assign usernames and also to download the demo content images. And thats it. You will still need setup your menus and select you front page and blog page in "settings > reading"
Best Regards Jesse
Thanks Jesse,
I had managed to do this bit already, what is happening is that the wordpress install just hangs and doesnt give me a success statement.
worpress xml importer I mean
It takes quite a while to download all the demo content images at least 2-3 minutes (maybe more depending on where you are). If you like I can take a look at doing it for you if you send me your username / password via email on our profile page.
Hey thanks for the reply, tried it again and it has more or less pulled everything accross,
Just want to get the panel that displays the dark room back to showing portfolio as it doesn't on my site.
Can you advise how you built the darkroom panel please? is there short code for including a project gallery?
hey, you just have to go to the darkroom panel and set the post format to "gallery" then make sure the gallery style is "thumbs".
Well be away from keyboard now until tomorrow
Hey VK, just been having some issues with getting the panel working (Darkroom), it doesn't seem to update the images when uploading for the slide show.
Any thoughts, if you want to have a look let me know your email and I can add you as a user.
Happy to take a look, just email the username / password via our profile contact form.
Best Regards Jesse
Hi, really lovely theme – congrats! I am having problems with the shortcodes. Every time I try to add a shortcode on a page I get a white screen. I click on the shortcode icon and then click on column/tab/whatever and I just get a blank page. When I click on the back button in the browser it goes back to the pages list page and I lose any changes I have made on the actual page. Can you please help? I have also just updated to Dimple 1.5 and am running current version of wordpress.
Hi Georgina,
Are you able to send a screen shot? Are you able to disable any non Visualkicks plugins and test the short-codes again? I'm testing the short-codes on a number of different installations and they appear to be working fine.
Let me know if it was or wasn't a plugin problem so we can sort this out for you.
Best Regards Jesse
Hi Jesse, I have disabled all the non visualkicks plugins and its still not working. Not sure there is any point of the screen shot as it is literally a white blank page (and I dont know how to attach an image to this comment?!)
This is what happens: I click on shortcode dropdown, a lightbox thing pops up and then about 2 seconds later the entire page goes white…..If I reload the page it goes back to post page.
Hmm, you'll need to send me your your username and password as I can't do much to fix something that isn't happening on our end / servers / test environment. Theres a lot I can do if I have access to the page though.
You don't have to send me your username and password (the admin account). You can create a new user just with author privileges which should be more then enough. Emails can be sent through our author page.
Hi Jesse. I just emailed you through the author page Thanks
An early morning question…
Can the masonry portfolio I have be easily adapted so the lines disappear and the 3 col block be brought closer together either with smaller gaps or no gaps at all?
Any ideas when 1.6 will be out bud?
Hey rich, I replied via email.
thanks bud, sent you a few more as well – so sorry
Last question for today sorry how do I remove the little grey down arrows in the main menu. I thought this was the right class but it doesn't do anything:
.sf-menu sf-js-enabled sf-arrows
Sorry there was one last thing am I right in thinking in the theme customizer there is no way of altering font-sizes, body, headings etc? as an example was trying to apply css to:
h5 sub-title portfolio-title tight align-center
Nothing happening though – prob wrong syntax
1) The super-fish menu has it's options set in js. But this will also work – http://snippi.com/s/2zg4r1o
2) That's correct, there is currently no way of changing font sizes. We might look at adding something like that in to the customiser later down the road. It's one of the things were putting into our next theme, so it will fit nicely.
This will work (i just tested it) – http://snippi.com/s/t9j2zjv
Best Regards J – ps I know you said you sent an email above so I will answer whatever q's that are in the email via email.
My website needs foreign font. Can I easily assign that font to the entire website in your theme options as font face? Thanks Nay
If it's not in the listed set of fonts you can do this. This is going of a korean google font, you will have to change accordingly for your own.
Copy paste this http://snippi.com/s/1fpz06v into dashboard > theme settings > custom css.
Change all the fonts in the theme customiser to "default" especially for the buttons, menus, typography etc. http://d.pr/i/ZQdZ
This will make all the fonts in the theme use Nanum Gothic. If you only want the body and paragraph fonts to be nanum change it so its just "body, p {" instead of all the h1,h2 etc
Best Regards Jesse
i'm a little confused on how to create galleries within portfolio projects so that once the user selects a portfolio project they can navigate left or right to browse the images in the the project. in the demo "the loft" has a grid of projects to view and then once one is clicked on you can look at all the images within that project. thank in advance!
Hey there, if you go to the portfolio post that you want to have as a gallery. Change the post format to "gallery" > upload the portfolio post images > set gallery style to "slider" > scroll down to 'media' box > set to fullwidth media.
That's it. It's the exact same process with blog posts & panels.
Best Regards Jesse
when i go to gallery settings on the edit portfolio page and try to upload images beside "gallery images" it won't upload my images for some reason.
How big are the images you're trying to upload? Does WordPress give you any error messages? I cant tell you why it wont let you upload as the media uploader is a core WordPress feature (has nothing to do with the theme).
Just to clear any confusion heres what you need to do – http://d.pr/i/dY61
Also, you don't need to "insert into post" you can just click close. All images uploaded to the post will be in the slider.
Best Regards Jesse
Morning (well it is here) question.
I want to have a a full width footer (eg 1 col that spans the 3) I have opened the footer.php file as I though I could add it in there and then create a new widget sidebar that goes in it, however the code is a little different than I'm used to in this footer, likewise I would like to do the same with the copyright footer, 1 column (span across 3 cols) both of these widget areas would need to be centred, like the footer on this site: http://demo.cornwallitservices.nhs.uk/agency/
I assume you have disabled 'Widget Areas' from WP admin as well, as this doesn't appear at all for me, in 3.6 this was a useful function for creating dynamic widget areas as it meant we didn't have to add it in manually in the function.php file
Hmm, "Widgets" should appear as normal in the dashboard – unless im completely in the dark about this feature. Registering sidebars takes place in the functions.php file. Perhaps its a plugin conflict? Heres the change
functions.php line 512: change 'col1' to 'col3'.custom css http://snippi.com/s/z2hss2m
That should do the trick, still not sure why you don't have widget areas available though.
Cheers J
I'd like to know wich file should I change to alter the text displayed at the search result, like in this example:http://www.quantaideias.com.br/wordpress/?s=sexta
I'd like to change it to something other than: "# search result(s) for…"
I've searched but couldn't find where to do this.
Thanks in advance
Just got it to work the way I wanted. Just one more question though:
Is there a way to change the "Reply" link text?
Best regards.
Hi! do you mean reply text for comments? It's tricky, that link is generated by the Wordpress function comment_reply_link();
You would have to know a bit of php to get that going – heres the function on the codex https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_reply_link
found in comments.php its found on line 111.
Best Regards Jesse
i seemed to have lost the ability to create a blog page. none of the posts are showing up on my blog page? suggestions?
Have you changed anything in settings > reading lately? Just check by going to settings > reading. Make sure your blog page is actually set to be your blog page. Also check the posts per page limit. Make sure it's not at 0?
Also, double check that all posts that you have made are in fact published?
thanks settings was not set for any posts. thanks! anyway, to make the posts fullwidth so there is no blank column on the right side?
Hmm, that's not currently doable, you will have to the single.php file. If you are unsure on how to do this you might need to contact a web developer. If you want to give it a go any way try this. http://snippi.com/s/tetbqxa
Also, this might break a bunch of stuff so make a backup.
Best Regards Jesse
that's ok. i think i can live with it, but if it really bothers me later, i'll change it then. thanks!