In this third piece of a five-part series on the fundamental tools that should be in our self-care tool chests when we come from relational trauma backgrounds, we explore another proverbial drawer: ...

As the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, I recently warned that we are facing an overreaction epidemic. The response to my warning has been, perhaps predictably, extreme.

If I were asked to list the major intellectual breakthroughs of the last half-century, I would certainly include the revolution in our understanding of emotion. For thousands of years, it was common ...

Neuroscientist and Psychologist Dr. Richard J. Davidson joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about our emotions. Are men truly less emotional than women? Can stress cause your brain ...

Unexpected events or surprising announcements have the power to ignite the stress response, also known as the fight-flight-freeze mechanism. Over the last few weeks post-election, some of us have been ...

What is your relationship with your emotions on a daily basis? Some of us might deny that we’re influenced by our feelings at all. Others might try to leave our emotions behind when we move into ...

Can you see yourself in one of these scenarios, or a similar one? If so, you’re spending what’s called “emotional labor.” What is emotional labor? How does it affect you and your people? And how can ...