The concept of 'basic’ or ‘primary’ emotions dates back at least to the Book of Rites, a first-century Chinese encyclopaedia that picks out seven ‘feelings of men’: joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, ...

In his latest book, Dealing with Feeling, Brackett shares the emotion regulation skills that can help both kids and adults relate to themselves in a different way. He’s an advocate of changing how we ...

When kids feel bombarded by difficult emotions, they may feel a sense of helplessness, as if there is nothing they can do to pull themselves out of the storm. As parents, we know effective strategies ...

Emotions are an important part of human intelligence. Identifying specific emotional categories from complex neural patterns, i.e., the neural decoding of emotional information, is a key issue in ...

Feelings like anger, grief, pain and even intense excitement are overwhelming even for adults. For children, who do not yet have the emotional or neurological development to understand or handle these ...

It is commonplace in philosophy and psychology to divide emotions into two groups: basic and complex emotions. Complex emotions, such as grief, regret, and jealousy, have highly variable appearances ...