We used a novel missing-letters task to induce curiosity, where participants were shown as a stimulus a nine letter word with some letters missing (2, 4, or 7 missing letters) and asked to complete the word. We found that ...

Emotional Intelligence is linked with human emotions, expressions of our own and people around us. Do emotions have biased towards gender? It is widely believed and claimed by studies that women are more emotionally intelligent ...

In this commentary, we focus on the role of attentional mechanisms in unconscious thought. We argue that even distracted or unconscious thought is capacity limited and differences in scope of attention influence processing ...

This paper discusses expressives in the Mundari language spoken in Jharkhand as moral propositions. Expressives have traditionally been peripheral to the study of language, but recently this class ...

Santali is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken throughout eastern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. It is currently written in multiple scripts, including a Roman script devised by missionaries in the late nineteenth century, ...

The ghats (steps and landings) leading to the holy River Ganga are used for worship, ritual bathing, cremation, and other life cycle rituals in the pilgrim city of Varanasi. Cultural practices celebrating the River Ganga ...