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The new study expands on that by focusing on the role of the heart in a nonemotional function, the perception of time, which can be linked to larger distortions in thinking.

I feel embarrassed about my overreaction because she’s been such a good babysitter and dog sitter for us, and our relationship has always been nonemotional.

“Our society does not know how to talk about money in nonjudgmental, nonemotional terms,” says Prof Elsie Michie of Louisiana State University, the author of The Vulgar Question of Money, a study of our cultural relationship with money through the lens of the 19th-century English novel.

Previous investigations of nonemotional words have demonstrated that colexified ones tend to have common properties—words that describe “sea” and “water” are more likely to be paired than those for “sun” and “water”—suggesting that speakers of a language perceive similarities in them.

A member of Guardians of the Green Beret, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the group’s work, shared some perspective on how difficult these conversations are with people close to those who have been untruthful: “You try to be as nonemotional and maybe as vanilla as possible. You tell them, ‘Don’t hate the messenger.’