In the 2001 film "Tortilla Soup," an argument between three sisters culminates in one smashing a plate on the kitchen floor. The abrupt, surprising action is an example of what psychology scholars ...

Unfortunately, one of the most significant things ever said about emotion may be that everyone knows what it is until they are asked to define it. —Joseph LeDoux Being humans, we are experiencing ...

A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response. Get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can you hold a positive emotion simultaneously with a negative one? Dimitri Otis/Stone via Getty Images Countless parents across ...

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 ...

A new paper published in the academic journal Canadian Psychology attempts to define an important yet elusive concept in clinical psychology: emotion dysregulation. According to the researchers, it is ...