Situational Adaptability: Recognize the emotional landscape of a situation and select the most effective response, rather ...

Spoken words, news headlines, sounds, facial expressions, and even scents can trigger intense emotional reactions, including anxiety, annoyance, or anger. These types of stimuli are called “emotional ...

In a new study, researchers were able to predict a person’s response to emotionally charged scenes using brain imaging and computer modeling alone—gauging not only whether the person’s reaction was ...

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

The art of not snapping comes down to learning how to handle your stress response before your mouth gets ahead of your brain.

This post is the second of a series about dispelling trauma myths. (You can read the first one here.) As a phenomenon, trauma involves a collection of experiences and reactions rooted in our ...

Triggers are actions or situations that elicit an emotional response. While they are typically associated with negative responses, a person can also have positive triggers. A person can experience ...

When a student writes "I am frustrating with that class," we recognize it as an error, but the error is not one that makes the writing unintelligible. The message ...

Patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can experience symptoms that include under-expression of emotions, such as numbness, as well as over-expression, such as rage outbursts.