Negative emotions, while unpleasant, can also have productive functions. Fear motivates us to engage in either fight or flight in response to a threat or predator. Negative emotions like jealousy ...

Let's talk about something that might feel counterintuitive: the importance of making space for our difficult emotions. I often hear clients tell me they're trying their best to "stay positive" or ...

However, they did find that a small subset of teachers—about 10%—displayed notable amounts of negative emotions, with some showing negativity during as much as 80% of their instructional time.

Results suggested that happy emojis were often being used to mask negative emotions and “manage the expression” to make a message seem more positive. Getty Images/iStockphoto.

Lean Into Negative Emotions. It’s the Healthy Thing to Do. Recent research suggests that while bad feelings can affect your well-being, your perspective on those feelings can play an even bigger ...

A Gallup poll surveyed the daily emotions of young Gen Zers, along with how they cope and what support they want and need. Dr. Lisa Damour, an adolescent psychologist, breaks down the findings.

Suppressing negative emotions may actually benefit your mental heath, study finds Patients who suppressed negative emotions for the study often chose to continue after the research was over.

All five negative emotions that make up the index fell between 2022 and 2023, with stress dropping the most. Thirty-seven percent of adults worldwide felt stressed in 2023, ...

Emotions are affective reactions we experience to stimuli. They can be positive, such as feeling relaxed or enjoying what you are doing (shopping or going for a walk, for example); and negative ...

Negative emotions can cause stress, which in turn impacts your health. Stress can destroy your body's hormone balance, impair the immune system, and drain your positive brain chemicals.

Positive and negative emotions are not an “either or.” They can coexist. I can be very grateful for things in my world and also very sad about some of the things in my world.