And I'd suggest that this modern pop version of the myth is so eagerly retold (or rather, imposed on existing events) because it provides a set of reassuring emotions, which many of us seem to have decided are much more important than actual facts.
How do you find this negative emotion reassuring?
The shows both stir and soothe very different kinds of pain and awareness, calling forth an intense and confusing panoply of emotions while also reassuring us about human persistence and art's sustaining power.
The GEMs were characterized as empathetic and attuned to their employees' emotions, while at the same time reassuring, stable figures who remained confident in uncertainty.
"It's reassuring for people who experience some of the emotions, but it's stigmatising for those who don't," said Konigsberg. "You may feel you're grieving incorrectly or there's something wrong with you".
It even joked that this wasn't an April Fool's joke, which is vaguely reassuring as only a sadist would toy with my emotions in this way.
Seeger gracefully deploys the color blue to express a deep sense of emotion in ways that are musical, meditative and reassuring.
It may be reassuring, a pleasant lie, to think that better filmmakers appeal to our emotions, not merely prey on them, but the great directors need hearts of killers and stone-cold calculation to have their way with us successfully.
It may be somewhat reassuring that we recently found that atypical antipsychotic mediation tended to 'normalise' medial PFC activation in an emotion recognition task [ 69].
However, the SUD + ASD group scores are significantly higher on Passive reaction and lower on Reassuring thoughts compared to the SUD and SUD + ADHD groups and lower on Expression of emotions compared to the SUD + ADHD group.
Physiological models posit the particular effectiveness of massage therapy for inducing calming and reassuring sensations, with some evidence showing that an increased production of oxytocin positively mediates mood and social emotions [ 10].
