Parenting isn't just about navigating your children's emotional ups and downs. We also need to work with our own big feelings ...

"Emotion is a complex and intense (with an abrupt onset and relatively short duration) psychophysiological experience of an animal individual's state of mind related to a locatable object as it reacts ...

Last summer, I had a most interesting standoff with a fox. I had seen some creature lurking in the far corners of our yard by the woods on occasion and had some minor fears about whether we might ever ...

Learning about emotions is an important part of children’s social and communicative development. Whether children can use words like “happy” or “sad” to talk about emotions predicts how well they get ...

On a special episode (first released on April 3, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Use the word sociopath in conversation, and you're bound to see some raised eyebrows, or worse. The word itself has ...