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 ...

The brain may organize emotions like locations on a map, revealing a hidden system that helps people interpret changing feelings.

Emotions may represent states that integrate a great deal of information to guide lasting patterns of behavior, but may need a window of time with persistent communication among widely separated brain ...

Emotions guide our actions. They help us decide whether to start, maintain, shift, or stop what we are doing—based on our current bodily state, the surrounding context, and the meaning we give to both ...

Get cut off in rush-hour traffic and you may feel angry for the whole trip, or even snap at a noisy child in the back seat. Get an unexpected smile from that same kid and you may feel like rush hour — ...

Get cut off in traffic and you might feel angry for the rest of the trip. The experience leads to an emotional response. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a new study of how this process may happen in the ...

How” and “why” our brains like music are two separate questions. A recent popular article sheds light on how. Explorations of ...

A new study shows macaque species with more tolerant social systems have larger brain regions linked to emotions and social signals.