An international study investigates spontaneous after-death communication to understand how participants perceive the emotional state of the deceased and how this perception influences their grieving ...

The film Black Swan (2010) is the journey of a dancer seeking perfection. However, this leads her to dance a downward spiral, in which reality becomes increasingly distorted. The concept of reality is ...

Music has been of great importance throughout human history, and emotions have always been the ultimate reason for all musical creations. When writing a song a composer tries to express a particular ...

When emotions start to spiral, most people try to suppress them or fix them immediately, but that usually just makes it worse. The five-minute rule therapists use takes a different approach entirely.

Our smiles broadcast, hey world, I am pleased. Our frowns say, don't mess with me. What about the other way around? Do we use our facial muscles to read emotion in the world? Our default assumption is ...

Daniel Goleman, in the Harvard Business Review, proposed that IQ and technical knowledge are mainly “threshold capabilities” and simply exist as entry level requirements for key positions. The key is ...

My recent book, Making Sense of Emotion, views emotional intelligence as "emotional literacy." This perspective on emotional intelligence suggests a new theoretical framework that breaks down ...

In the UK version of the TV show "The Traitors," contestants were given five minutes to find as much gold as they could, put it into cages and hoist them before the time ran out. There was a catch ...

Are you good at reading your partner's emotions? Your perceptiveness may very well strengthen your relationship. Yet when anger or contempt enter the fray, little is to be gained and the quality of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at the picture above. Do you think the ...