Empathy is partly unconscious and automatic, and we vary in the degree to which we have learned to embrace empathy. Some, like Sebastian, require transformational experiences before we can enhance our ...

Like all emotions, anger serves a purpose. Like the cry of a baby–to be fed or held–a child’s or adult’s anger generally arises from some form of distress. The baby’s cry, a call for assistance, ...

Psychologist Susan David writes about the notion that emotions are neither good or bad, they are simply indicators of an underlying problem. For David, emotions signpost—or alert us—when our values ...

Anger is the kind of feeling people try to tamp down, out of fear that it will ignite and explode. Pretending your anger doesn't exist causes it to compress itself, making a home in the small space of ...

There are a lot of reasons “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” flopped. No sequel could match the unexpected delight of the first installment, "The Lego Movie," released in 2014. Also, The Second Part ...

A study investigating the effects of alcohol on emotion recognition and empathy found that alcohol impairs the recognition of anger, but not other specific emotions. Participants who drank alcohol ...

We all know someone who seems to carry a storm cloud around with them, seemingly furious at the world. While it’s tempting to chalk it up to a short fuse or a bad day, there's often more going on ...