Research identifies three core dimensions of how art regulates emotion. Source: Dan Cristian Pădureț / Pexels. Art helps us deal with our emotions. Expressing yourself, exploring your inner world, and ...

As the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, I recently warned that we are facing an overreaction epidemic. The response to my warning has been, perhaps predictably, extreme.

Depressed individuals who reflexively attempt to dampen their initial emotional responses to reminders of their negative memories have a low tolerance for distressing emotional stimuli in general and ...