The Genetics of Cognition research group coordinated by Francesco Papaleo at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has discovered a brain network present in animals and humans that allows them to ...

Remember the sadness that came with the last time you failed miserably at something? Or the last time you were so anxious about an upcoming event that you couldn’t concentrate for days? These types of ...

Anger and forgiveness are often pitted against each other as archrivals. In my research for my book, You Don’t Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms, I discovered that in this contest, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. While it's difficult to navigate the intense anger your ...

Though we often think of anger as a negative emotion, it actually has evolved in humans for positive reasons. Anger leads you towards responses that help you overcome obstacles, alerts you to danger ...

Anger is not usually a pleasant feeling. When we feel we’ve been wronged—by, say, a slow driver or a boss or a noisy neighbor—our heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature go up, preparing us ...

If Terry L. had to give herself a diagnosis, it would be “what I call POPD — pissed-off personality disorder,” she says. Even though the Kansas resident has learned numerous coping skills to help ...

Happiness "lights up" similar areas on both modern and ancient body maps, with the exception of the liver, which was more significant for the ancient Mesopotamians. Modern: PNAS / Lauri Nummenmaa et ...

These types of emotions are unpleasant to experience and can even feel overwhelming. People often try to avoid them, suppress them, or ignore them. In fact, in psychology experiments, people will pay ...