Neuroscientists found that brains display distinct neural activity when experiencing emotions such as bitter-sweetness. The advance could help solve a longstanding scientific debate: whether ...

The pain of a romantic breakup is a universal experience, yet its depth can feel isolating and misunderstood. While friends ...

USC Dornsife neuroscientists found that brains display distinct neural activity when experiencing emotions such as bittersweetness. The advance could help solve a longstanding scientific debate ...

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Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley who has spent two decades studying this emotion, describes three ways you might know you are experiencing awe: tears, chills, and “whoa.” For ...

We tend to welcome “positive” or pleasant emotions, like happiness, excitement, and love. Beginning in early childhood, we learn that these are good emotions and we accept them without question.

“It is impossible to avoid negative emotions altogether because to live is to experience setbacks and conflicts,” Sauer-Zavala says. Learning how to cope with those emotions is the key, she adds.

In allowing ourselves to fully experience core emotions, we move toward our authentic open-hearted state in which we feel less depressed, less anxious, more confident, secure, and vital.

Recognizing the emergence of emotion, I invited her to slow down and notice the physical experience of her sadness with compassion towards it. She stopped speaking and focused inward.