These types of emotions are unpleasant to experience and can even feel overwhelming. People often try to avoid them, suppress them, or ignore them. In fact, in psychology experiments, people will pay ...

Happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust, love, joy, and shame – some of our common emotions – transcend language, ethnicity, geography, and age. Facial expressions and reactions associated ...

In my previous post, I discussed how "hangry" and similar states aren't actually anger—they're frozen fight-or-flight responses, anxiety experienced as irritability. But that raises an obvious ...

How much joy, gratitude or awe do you experience in your daily life? These are just a few of the positive emotions that can guide and influence our thoughts and behavior. Like all positive emotions, ...

WHAT'S THE POINT — Anger and hatred are easy emotions. Well, easy to feel, difficult to conquer or control. Anger managements experts tell us that anger builds, that it can be managed, we can learn ...

People often respond to ethically charged issues with strong emotions. Anger, indignation, and disgust are a normal part of the moral life. If we didn’t have these negative emotions, we would not be ...

You can’t fight for what’s right if you’re so emotionally decimated that you’re living your day-to-day in fight-or-flight ...

Remember the sadness that came with the last time you failed miserably at something? Or the last time you were so anxious about an upcoming event that you couldn’t concentrate for days? These types of ...