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On March 2nd, 2025, TikToker [1] @marla777666 posted a slideshow consisting of two slides. The first slide is a coloring chart asking users to add specific colors to the silhouette of a person to ...

Why do our favorite songs evoke such strong emotions? Songwriter Scarlet Keys teaches the many methods musicians use to boost a listener's mood—or break their heart. Scarlet Keys is a professor ...

Helping children recognise and understand their emotions is an important part of supporting their development. For a young child, every day brings new experiences and challenges, and there’s a ...

Psychologist and neuroscientist Ethan Kross offers dozens of tools to help people manage their emotions more effectively. Ethan Kross is a psychologist, neuroscientist, and writer who directs the ...

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Emotional labor refers to controlling one’s emotions to carry out the demands of one’s job. For example, a nurse may have to soothe a sick patient while being berated with demands.

Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to a person’s ability to recognize and understand their own and others’ emotions and to manage their emotions to achieve specific goals. Whilst not always ...

The mayor also told the crowd that he had been through a rollercoaster of emotions since his father’s arrest. Most attendees wore black t-shirts and red armbands bearing the words “We stand ...

At first the conversations and jokes were a bit stilted — awkward even — but he eventually got more comfortable, loosening up and letting the emotions wash over him like a wave. Are We Good?