Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain. The findings provide new insights that could help inform ...

Emotions play a central role in shaping human behavior, cognition, and social interaction. They bridge biology, behavior, and sociality—functioning as ...

Neuroscience shows that our brains aren't wired to sustain high-intensity work over long periods of time. Many leaders describe feeling like they are caught in a whirlwind of constant doing—without a ...

I was in a cranky mood this afternoon when I read about a new study on the neuroscience of savoring positive emotions released this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for ...

Did you know that many emotions are processed in a specific part of the brain called the amygdala? This small almond-shaped structure plays a crucial role in processing emotional information and is ...

From polarized elections to market swings driven by social contagion, we continually see that emotional forces move systems ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. While in a session, I asked the attending leaders, "How many of you have had empathy ...

Emotion regulation refers to an individual’s ability to evaluate and manage their experience and expression of emotions. The ability to do this effectively is key to psychological wellbeing and social ...

Have you ever felt detached from your surroundings, like you were watching your life unfold from a distance instead of living it? This experience, known as dissociation, can feel disorienting and ...

I’m an emotional person. Both professionally and personally. I earned a PhD in the neuroscience and psychology of emotions, a very specific, and prolonged, educational trajectory preempted by my ...