Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emotions are powerful, and when they're in charge, they can steer you into unexpected directions. Sometimes, it feels like you're ...

Emotions often control how people think, react, and make decisions. A single negative comment on social media can ruin ...

As infants, our emotional expression is our primary mode of communication: Crying when we are distressed or laughing and smiling when we are happy. We tend to become upset (e.g., angry, sad, or ...

Human beings are innately goal-directed. Experience and prospection lead us to form goals that would realize states of the world that we have positively or negatively evaluated, and we are motivated ...

Let's say you've gone through a breakup. You're heartbroken, confused and angry. What do you do with all those feelings? That's up to you. You have the power to "turn the intensity up or down on an ...

There are the good manageable emotions like the love you feel when you see your significant other or a piece of avocado toast. Then there are the really difficult to manage emotions such as the rage ...

We make very different choices depending on what takes the dominant role in decision-making: the head or the heart. Behavioral economists have long relished exposing our illogic when it comes to ...