(AegeanBlue/Canva) Imagine feeling a knot in your stomach, or your heart racing, and being unable to tell whether you are feeling anger, anxiety, or excitement. For millions of people around the globe ...

Music has the capacity to express and evoke a wide range of emotions 1,2,3. Listeners can identify emotional connotations after only a few seconds of music (“perceived emotion”), whereas it takes ...

Human’s abilities to reason about what others may be feeling undergo prolonged development throughout childhood and adolescence, yet the mechanisms driving the emergence of these skills remain elusive ...

Music helps us step past our rational mind and get in touch with the emotional life we often keep hidden. Music is remarkable in its ability to evoke profound emotions (chills and thrills) in ...

Music is remarkable in its ability to evoke profound emotions (chills and thrills) in listeners. We often describe pieces of music as sad, joyful, tender, or harsh. Most music listeners use emotional ...

Recent findings published in the journal Emotion suggest that the discomfort associated with making eye contact is not exclusive to individuals with a clinical autism diagnosis but scales with ...

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...