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Mixed emotions – neuroscience is exploring how your brain lets you experience two opposite feelings at once

  • Written by Anthony Gianni Vaccaro, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageCan you hold a positive emotion simultaneously with a negative one?Dimitri Otis/Stone via Getty Images

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a permanently changed family dynamic, the uncertainty of...

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