Emotion dysregulation has been identified in research as a transdiagnostic risk factor for mental ill-health, including depression and anxiety. Luckily, such research also demonstrates that this ...

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.

A study in Japan found that the associations between inflammation markers and psychological symptoms such as depression, ...

Life is unpredictable, and so are our emotions. There’s no manual dictating when you’ll experience the myriad of different feelings humans do, so it’s something you have to figure out on your own. You ...

Depressed individuals who reflexively attempt to dampen their initial emotional responses to reminders of their negative memories have a low tolerance for distressing emotional stimuli in general and ...

Every year, millions of people set New Year’s resolutions with genuine hope and motivation, only to watch many of them ...

When I was a teenager, I declared that I did not like my grandma. My mother excoriated me not just for saying such a thing but for feeling it. That, in her eyes, made me a terrible person. She ...

Tears have a wide range of functions that are critical to ocular health and emotional regulation. Each type of tear has a slightly different biochemical structure and content specialized to their ...

Emotional maturity is a critical aspect of personal development and mental health. It’s managing and understanding our emotions, enabling us to respond appropriately to various situations. Emotional ...