Most people use "feelings" and "emotions" like they mean the same thing — but they're not. It turns out you only have six ...

The ability to understand, recognize, and label your own emotions is a necessary part of living a fulfilling life.

It may seem surprising that the people we love most are often the ones we find hardest to be emotionally honest with. In therapy, I sometimes meet clients who can speak openly about frustrations with ...

It’s a phenomenon so prevalent it’s practically a punchline: Women get hangry when Aunt Flo comes to town. To be more specific, they stereotypically “tend to crave sugar and chocolate before their ...

Denver — The evidence is clear: Exercise has mental health benefits, although studies have come to different conclusions about how large it might be. And yet, when February rolls around again, the ...

I’ve found myself carrying negative feelings that I don’t want but can’t quite shake. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 ...

That’s what we skydivers call people who can’t understand why we risk everything for the thrill of our sport: “Wuffo,” as in “what for”? Why would we jump out of airplanes and trust our lives to the ...

“‘Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can,’ she said to him, ‘because these things don’t last your whole life’” - Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez The ...

One of the most fascinating personality characteristics is neuroticism. It is one of the Big Five characteristics and is associated with high levels of worry, anxiety, and negative feelings. Indeed, ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...

Battle of the sexes? More like battle of the thermostat. Men are from chilly Mars, yet they apparently run hotter — while women feel left out in the cold. One study got to the bottom of this ...

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