Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...

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 ...

There are times when my emotions really get in my way. When I perform on stage, fear of failure makes my heart race and throat clench. Or when a friend says something hurtful to me, I can’t stop ...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own and other’s emotions. People who are high in EI tend to have more satisfying personal and professional ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lucy Paulise is executive coach and author of Timebox, based in Texas. Emotional regulation is an executive function, the brain’s ...

Emotions are natural, human, useful responses that provide us with rapid information about a situation and that can help us communicate with others. Emotions provide information about our needs and ...

Fast Company recently interviewed Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, a senior researcher at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, on what it means to lead a creative life. In this essay, she shares one ...

Emotions guide our actions. They help us decide whether to start, maintain, shift, or stop what we are doing—based on our current bodily state, the surrounding context, and the meaning we give to both ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. A couple of years ago I was at the ophthalmologist with my six-year-old daughter. The optician asked me ...

You’ve probably heard it before: Communication is key to healthy relationships. But that can be wayyyy harder than it sounds if your partner is super resistant to talking about how they are feeling—or ...