"I call it a tyranny of attention because there's so many demands on our attention coming from so many different directions that we are simply overwhelmed and we don't have the mental bandwidth to cope with it."

Chip Conley suggests that viewing emotions as equations can help you identify adjustable variables and constants beyond your control, making overwhelming feelings more manageable through a mathematical perspective.

This emotional intelligence (EQ) course, featuring experts like Daniel Goleman and Amy Cuddy, highlights EQ's vital role in career success, offering strategies to enhance self-awareness, management, and interpersonal skills, ultimately fostering better performance in personal and professional settings.

A physician, a psychologist, and a mindfulness teacher explain what stress does to your body and mind, and how to use it to get smarter and stronger.

A neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a psychotherapist discuss how emotions are stories built from old experiences.

Many of us rely on emotional advice that doesn’t actually work. Psychologist Ethan Kross offers a smarter, science-backed approach to managing emotions with flexibility and perspective.

From trepanning to lobotomies, humans have long struggled to manage emotion. Today, we have better tools. Psychologist Ethan Kross shares what actually works, and why.

Clarity driven by anxiety rarely lasts.

Ethan Kross, psychologist and author of "Shift," explains how negative emotions help us live safely and well.

There’s little more infuriating in the world than being told to “calm down” when you’re in the midst of a simmering grump.

Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein drew inspiration from psychologists as well as their own children, becoming more understanding parents in the process.

“Say what you want to say, and not what you feel.” Harvard happiness professor explains ‘metacognition’ techniques so you can grow your emotional intelligence:

"Upon emergence, these patients are sincerely unsure what was reality and what was a ‘dream.'"

Humans are among the most altruistic species that we’ve studied, due to our alloparental instincts – a trait we evolved into that allows us to care for offspring who are […]

In the fight between head and heart, psychologists will win.

Depression can cause you to think too much — and physically sense too little.

While weltschmerz — literally "world-pain" — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.

The amygdala can hijack your brain's response if it recognizes past trauma in a current situation. To regain control, simply press pause.

Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as "frisson." What is it, and why does it happen?

Are people are more likely to act less emotionally and more rationally when speaking their second language?

Your brain isn’t wired for happiness — but you can change that, explains Yale scientist Laurie Santos.

No, emotions don’t happen TO you. Here’s what happens instead.

Emotion dysregulation has been linked to unhealthy risk-taking, relationship challenges, and negative physical health outcomes.

A study shows that the brains of lonely individuals respond in odd ways to visual stimuli, while those of non-lonely people react similarly.

It may be an advantage in some contexts.

Some experiences continue to pay dividends time and time again.

A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.

In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?

Grandpa knows how to take it easy.

Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.