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This article talks about whether language is needed to form thoughts. This article discusses that collection of images can used to describe something rather than use of words. In the article, the author discusses how people might think about dogs using memory of images of dogs. The article also brings up that is necessary to define language. The author brings up the point that sign language communicates thoughts without words; therefore, thoughts can communicated without language depending on your definition.

This article talks about what your handwriting, something that we consider unconscious and automatic, says about your emotions, personality, and even health.

This article is really interesting, because it discusses how the brain feels or creates physical pain for things such as rejection. It uses an example of a person in a simulation being left out of a group passing balls to each other and shows that that person experiences stimulation in his physical pain part of the brain as well as a emotion of rejection. It also talks about the effects of social pain on changing our actions.

This article shows how paranoia and uncertainty can lead people to use emotion rather than reason as a dominant way of knowing. People in Dallas, and around the world have started believing unproven facts about Ebola, such as it becoming airborne, and have gone to great lengths to avoid all human contact, such as a college student's parents sending her three week's worth of food so she wouldn't have to leave her dorm.