In a recent post, “How to React to Adolescent Emotions,” I discussed the important role that validation plays in de-escalating intense adolescent emotions. When we validate someone, they are left ...

What do you do when you feel a difficult emotion? Do you push it away or dive into it? Do you express it in words or become flooded into a state of screaming, sobbing, or shutdown? Every adult—and ...

A new study challenges the longstanding belief that fear is primarily communicated through facial expressions, showing instead that context plays the dominant role in real-life fear recognition. By ...