We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're ...

An incredible new map could help explain why anger feels similar to fear, and why being in love makes you feel warmhearted. Researchers have used AI to analyse brain imaging data, revealing how we ...

Workplace conflict is often judged by the visible reaction, not the pattern that led to it. Leaders who ignore context risk ...

What if the deeper issue was not knowing how to recognize and work with the emotions underneath defensiveness? When we relate ...

If there's one emotion that's tough to deal with, it's anger. Growing up, many of us learn that expressing it means we're "problematic" or "mean." But anger is not a character flaw. It's an important ...

Researcher and author Joshua Freedman has arrived at a conclusion that sounds simple but changes everything: emotions themselves are not inherently ‘bad,’ though some responses to them may be ...

In my previous post, I discussed how "hangry" and similar states aren't actually anger—they're frozen fight-or-flight responses, anxiety experienced as irritability. But that raises an obvious ...

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 ...

Short bursts of anger can affect your blood vessels in a way that weakens circulation and raises the risk of a heart attack or stroke, says a new study. Scientists have found that just eight minutes ...

Emotionally charged online content can propagate rapidly, forming large-scale information cascades. As I have written, much of the literature has noted that content that arouses expressive negative ...