“Don’t let your joy get the best of you.” “Be careful: You might become a joyous person.” “It’s OK to feel joy sometimes; you just have to manage it.” You’ve probably never heard people say any of ...

Negative emotions, while unpleasant, can also have productive functions. Fear motivates us to engage in either fight or flight in response to a threat or predator. Negative emotions like jealousy, for ...

In their study, University of Delaware Associate Research Professor Leigh McLean and co-author Nathan Jones of Boston University, found that teachers displayed far more positive emotions than negative ...

Negative emotions induced by social exclusion can exert a significant detrimental effect on an individual’s physical and mental health. To explore the effects and neural mechanisms of interpersonal ...

Language supports emotional development by enabling children to mentally represent conceptual emotion knowledge. Whereas previous research has linked emotion-specific vocabulary to emotion knowledge, ...