sometimes feeling bad. “We’ve only recently come to understand that guilt — historically perceived strictly as a distressing emotion — can be constructive,” says Will Bynum, an associate ...

Those folks may wall it off as a “bad” emotion to be feared and banished. That disavowal has consequences at both an interpersonal and a larger social level. When we avoid conflict in our ...

After thousands of years living with dogs, humans have learned surprisingly little about how the animals express emotion, ...

Sometimes, an upbeat response covers up an uncomfortable emotion. I was recently texting with a friend when he paused for a ...

but bad about certain aspects (she isn’t very affectionate, and that worries me). You might assume that your net happiness at a given time would be something like your positive emotion minus ...

emotion focused therapy holds that, although unconscious, emotional suppression can cause physical and emotional harm, continues Lively. Someone who was raised to think expressing anger is bad ...

Fear gets a bad rap. It’s a so-called negative emotion, one that supposedly stands between us and our dreams. It is certainly true that pure fear doesn’t feel good, but that is the whole point ...

Joy is an emotion that understands the nature of loss.” Now he’s witnessing the effects of his new mindset at work. The Bad Seeds kicked off a European tour last month and have been performing ...