Insights at the intersection of culture, emotion, and psychotherapy: How cultural worlds shape emotional expression, distress ...

Smiles do more than express emotion - new research shows they can unconsciously influence trust and shape how we perceive ...

What if the emotions we think we see aren’t really there? Neuroscience reveals how culture shapes what we feel—and how easily ...

Italy’s later episodes and reunion reveal how emotional grand gestures often outpaced accountability, showing that repair—not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kathy Miller Perkins, Ph.D. covers purpose-driven leaders and careers Picture a leader stepping into a conference space, ...

People often say that your feelings are “written all over your face.” That’s because our facial expressions are a main way we communicate emotions, whether that means smiling and crinkling our eyes ...

A new type of psychotherapy called emotional awareness and expression therapy significantly outperformed cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing chronic pain in older veterans. Emotional awareness ...

People instinctively mimic others’ facial expressions, but new research shows we do this far more with joyful faces than with sadness or anger—and that the intensity of mimicry predicts how much we ...

Adults with autism are only slightly less accurate at reading people's facial emotions compared to their non-autistic peers, according to new research. Recent studies show we may need to revise widely ...

When I’m exhausted from work, hugging ‘Moplins’ often lifts my mood,” said Haruka Uto, a woman in her 30s who lives with three ‘companion robots’ in Tokyo, Japan. The two Moplins Uto raises are pet ...