When working with teens and discussing emotions, I often give an analogy of sand in a jar. In this analogy, the sand ...

Here’s why your heightened emotional sensitivity is not a weakness, no matter what our modern emotionally flattened culture tells you.

The AI field has made remarkable progress with incomplete data. Leading generative models like Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, and Llama can understand text but not emotion. These models can’t process your ...

How Culture Shapes Our Relationship With Tears Cultural attitudes toward crying vary widely across the world. Some cultures embrace public expressions of grief, viewing shared tears as essential to ...

Autistic and non-autistic faces express emotion differently, and misunderstanding can go both ways. A new study suggests that autistic and non-autistic people use facial movements to express emotions ...

Previous posts in this series have considered emotional education and emotional competence, how they are based upon emotional communication during development, and how miscommunication can undermine a ...

Facial emotion representations expand from sensory cortex to prefrontal regions across development, suggesting that the prefrontal cortex matures with development to enable a full understanding of ...

Q: Is it possible to control crying? I cry when I’m sad, when I’m mad and even when I’m happy. It feels uncontrollable and it’s incredibly frustrating. Sometimes it’s even embarrassing, especially ...