Emotional labor is the act of managing your emotions to present yourself in a certain way while doing a job, spending time ...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own and other’s emotions. People who are high in EI tend to have more satisfying personal and professional ...

When an emotion arises, how do you usually respond? For many, suppression and analysis are the default, but truly processing emotions is key to healing and stronger connections. Most of us were never ...

As the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, I recently warned that we are facing an overreaction epidemic. The response to my warning has been, perhaps predictably, extreme.

Building intimacy in a relationship is a complex process and believe it or not, there are many different types of intimacy. Intimacy with another person requires self awareness, compassion and ...

Neuroscientist and Psychologist Dr. Richard J. Davidson joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about our emotions. Are men truly less emotional than women? Can stress cause your brain ...

Cowritten by Sarah Sperber and Tchiki Davis, Ph.D. Do you have a hard time regulating your emotions? Do you wonder what's going on when your emotions feel dysregulated (or out of control)? The ...

Unexpected events or surprising announcements have the power to ignite the stress response, also known as the fight-flight-freeze mechanism. Over the last few weeks post-election, some of us have been ...

When Leonardo DiCaprio, who was born in 1974, made headlines this week for joking in an interview with Esquire that he “turned emotionally 35 last year,” I was reminded of the wide gulf in emotional ...

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