Sarah Rose Cavanagh is a psychologist, professor, and Associate Director of the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption University. Her research considers the contribution of emotions and emotion regulation to quality of life. Sarah gives keynote addresses and workshops at a variety of colleges and national and international conferences, blogs for Psychology Today, and writes essays for venues like LitHub and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In her free time she enjoys devouring fiction, spending time by the sea with her canine and human daughters, and cooking up pescatarian meals for good friends.
Sarah Rose Cavanagh uses social neuroscience to unveil the fascinating existence of a hive mind in our society, a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a single mind. To what degree does this affect our emotions, …