Emotionally intelligent individuals have stronger emotion regulation abilities, which helps protect trust from unnecessary ...

Our uncontrolled emotions can frequently lead to disastrous consequences. Some professional athletes are renowned for wear their emotions on their shirt sleeves, while others somehow seem to keep an ...

Sometime in the autumn of 1861, Charles Darwin was having a bad day. “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and I hate everybody and everything,” he wrote to his friend. On days like that, Darwin ...

We have a very special relationship with our emotions. On the one hand, we are often embarrassed to be emotional in public; we feel obliged to be rational in a world of performance. On the other hand, ...

Smiles do more than express emotion - new research shows they can unconsciously influence trust and shape how we perceive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Infidelity can deeply destabilize a relationship, leaving both partners with ...

How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out that we are more likely to mimic people who express joy, and we perceive those ...

People instinctively mimic others’ facial expressions, but new research shows we do this far more with joyful faces than with sadness or anger—and that the intensity of mimicry predicts how much we ...