Emotions are related to mood, personality and motivation, and they cause measurable physiological and psychological changes. The study of emotions and feelings is important because they are at the ...

By understanding emotions, the functions they serve, how to assess them, and how to change them if desired, individuals may be better equipped to act proactively for their own health and well-being ...

Emotions are more physiological than psychological. Their psychological significance comes from the meaning we give to them. Uninformed by the function and mechanics of emotions, the meaning we assign ...

Emotions set. Girl hiding face behind signboard with drawn smileys. Collage of indifferent, winking, happy, surprised, and sad emoticons. Once you understand that emotions ‘do’ something, it is easier ...

June Gruber, at left, is leading an interdisciplinary effort to improve human understanding of people's emotions. Photo by Glenn Asakawa. While emotions are essential human experiences, ‘there are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever caught yourself saying "I shouldn't feel this way" or "Just get over it already"? Society has trained us to view ...

Aniket Bera, computer science professor at Purdue, is training AI models on data from diverse communities, trying to bring emotional intelligence to artificial intelligence. It’s getting easier and ...

A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism or ...

Tears have a wide range of functions that are critical to ocular health and emotional regulation. Each type of tear has a slightly different biochemical structure and content specialized to their ...