Positive and negative emotions are not an “either or.” They can coexist. I can be very grateful for things in my world and also very sad about some of the things in my world. The next time you ...

The part of the brain that controls negative and positive emotions are different. This is what makes one optimist and pessimist in nature. Researchers have found that the caudate nucleus in the ...

Without ignoring our feelings, his book argues, we can learn to work with them in more positive ways, allowing us to gain relief and wisdom from them. “The goal is not to run from negative emotions, ...

Emotion dysregulation is a component of certain forms of mental illness. Over time, it could have a negative impact on one’s personal well-being and social relationships. What are some ...

Why do emotional events, whether positive or negative, create strong, long-lasting memories of external information such as music, scene smells and textures received at the events? We know that ...

Because our brain reacts the same way to social threats as life-threatening ones, negative emotions can negatively impact our abilities to accurately perceive situations, solve problems ...

Emotion dysregulation is a component of certain forms of mental illness. Over time, it could have a negative impact on one’s personal well-being and social relationships. What are some ...

The researchers focused on self-scratching—a bodily response linked to negative emotions like anxiety and fear—and its relationship to pessimistic judgment bias, which is the tendency to ...