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Graphic Gallery: Green

Green is the colour of nature and of innocence, until it reveals its darker side.

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The joy of playing hide-and-seek with rats

Playing hide-and-seek with lab rats has shown scientists that joy can be a great motivator for learning and social interaction – and not just for rats.

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Communities of cross-feeders

A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.

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Do good mothers make good democracy?

To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.

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  • A bearded man glowering with jealousy (left) and a man expressing jealousy or hatred. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • "Hatred or jealousy" from Le Brun, Bowles's Passions of the soul, circa 1785
  • A man glowering, expressing hatred or jealousy. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • Jealousy: a young woman sits on a sofa talking to a young man as an older man comes rushing through the door looking anxious. Lithograph by Jules David, 1834.
  • A face expressing hatred and jealousy (left) and a face expressing despair (right). Engravings after C. Le Brun.
  • A face expressing hatred or jealousy. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • A man harrassed by personifications of greed, guilt, credulity, jealousy, sadness and pride. Engraving by P. Galle, ca 1563.
  • A face expressing hatred or jealousy (left); a face with hair on end expressing despair. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two outlines of faces, one showing violent movement (left), the other expressing jealousy (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A scene of jealousy; a bespectacled older man spies on a couple from beneath a verandah. Coloured woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1830 (?).
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