Letting raw emotion drive financial decisions sounds like a recipe for disaster. But Jennifer Lerner, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management at the ...

“Do you ever look at someone and wonder: What is going on inside their head?” Joy asks in the opening line of Pixar’s film Inside Out. Inside Out is the story of 11-year-old Riley and her emotions: ...

New research says joy, not shame, is what makes better habits stick. Here's the 5-step method two UBC psychologists use to build them.

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Emotions are fundamental to human adaptation, influencing cognition, decision-making, social behavior, learning, health, and well-being throughout life.

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 ...

A research team has unveiled a groundbreaking technology that can recognize human emotions in real time. A groundbreaking technology that can recognize human emotions in real time has been developed ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. A couple of years ago I was at the ophthalmologist with my six-year-old daughter. The optician asked me ...

Time flows in a continuous stream — yet our memories are divided into separate episodes, all of which become part of our personal narrative. How emotions shape this memory formation process is a ...

“Do you ever look at someone and wonder: What is going on inside their head?” Joy asks in the opening line of Pixar’s film Inside Out. Inside Out is the story of 11-year-old Riley and her emotions: ...