“Do you ever look at someone and wonder: What is going on inside their head?” Joy asks in the opening line of Pixar’s film Inside Out. Inside Out is the story of 11-year-old Riley and her emotions: ...

Emotions are a fundamental part of human psychology-a complex process that has long distinguished us from machines. Even advanced artificial intelligence (AI) lacks the capacity to feel. However, ...

Tomorrow, the much-anticipated sequel Inside Out 2 premieres in theaters, making it a perfect time to revisit the science behind the original 2015 Pixar hit that brought psychological research into ...

In the year 2014, cinema witnessed something familiar yet entirely unprecedented with Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar.’ While space epics such as Star Trek and Star Wars have long captured the ...

When I was a teenager, I declared that I did not like my grandma. My mother excoriated me not just for saying such a thing but for feeling it. That, in her eyes, made me a terrible person. She ...

Letting raw emotion drive financial decisions sounds like a recipe for disaster. But Jennifer Lerner, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management at the ...

Dealing with stress isn't just about managing negative emotions. Recent research suggests that savoring positive moments is ...

Can understanding the source of your emotions help you make better decisions? Participants were assessed for ability to understand emotions and were then told they would have to give a video-recorded ...

If you think ‘not feeling anything’ is a strength, you may be mistaking emotional numbness for true emotional safety. Here’s ...