In the decades following World War II, psychology as a science made notable strides in diagnosing and treating pathologies. While the contribution of psychological research on mental illness and ...

Elementary school teachers often play a special role in their students’ lives, wiping away their kindergarteners’ tears when they’re missing their parents or supporting their fourth graders through a ...

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...

Researchers explore how dampening, defined as minimizing positive emotions, can relate to depression symptoms in a new study.

Sleep deprivation is linked to an increased risk of anxiety symptoms and a decrease in positive emotions. The corresponding study was published in Psychological Bulletin. For the study, researchers ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. A couple of years ago I was at the ophthalmologist with my six-year-old daughter. The optician asked me ...

In leadership, understanding the nuances of human behavior is essential for effective management. Two terms often used interchangeably are "sensitive people" and "emotional people." While they may ...

Your movements,” the neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett told me, “whether it’s on your face or in your body ...

A new study found that people who frequently use emojis when texting may have a deeper understanding of human emotions. The ...