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Happy, sad, mad, glad. We all know what these emotions feel like, but do we know how to deal with them? Last month, Marc Brackett, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence ...

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You know all those people urging you to be happy under any circumstances? Do them one better: Take steps to cultivate a more meaningful existence instead. That means tapping into how you’re really ...

We know that young children learn to identify, explain, and regulate their emotions, but we know much less about how children learn these things. They undoubtedly acquire some of their emotional ...

Some books arrive quietly and leave a lasting ache. This listicle brings together ten short works that hold grief, desire, ...

In a world that can feel quite chaotic and stressful, many people turn to the comforting things around them to help them cope with feelings of stress. For certain individuals, it means throwing their ...

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If you ask people to come up with a list of emotions, love is usually one of the first they mention. It is an ever-present topic in human life and culture. One study found that love was rated as the ...