In trauma-impacted families, stress is contagious, but so is calm. Learn how awareness and repair help families slow down.

Many people tend to conflate emotional intelligence with empathy. Emotional intelligence involves—and necessitates—much more.

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Duke University ...

Emotions fulfill an eminently adaptive function in human development, strongly influencing higher-order psychological processes, such as motivation, ...

Deadlines often trigger dread, not motivation, for some, activating threat responses and hindering creativity. This aversion stems from a strong need for autonomy, a task-based time perception, ...

More women are choosing to be single by choice. Psychology explains the emotional, social, and personal reasons behind this ...

February is the shortest month of the year, yet seasonal affective disorder can make it feel like being stuck in a waiting ...

School burnout in the study covers emotional exhaustion, disengagement from learning, and a reduced sense of academic ...

A couple sits together on a sunny park bench. He appears to be studying the passing clouds; she’s absorbed in a novel. Some passersby might think, How sweet. Others might see them as bleak. They could ...

Emotional eating, turning to food for comfort, stress relief, or distraction rather than to satisfy physical hunger—affects millions of people and often undermines otherwise successful health ...