As the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, I recently warned that we are facing an overreaction epidemic. The response to my warning has been, perhaps predictably, extreme.

Emotion regulation refers to an individual’s ability to evaluate and manage their experience and expression of emotions. The ability to do this effectively is key to psychological wellbeing and social ...

Emotional self-regulation is the ability to think before you act, which can help you view situations more positively. Developing this skill takes practice, and you can help through strategies that ...

My dad’s death marked the beginning of a tumultuous year. My mom's cognitive decline became much more apparent in the aftermath. My brothers and I managed my parents’ estate, sold the home they had ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to identify brain regions unique to emotion regulation in the human brain, providing novel therapeutic approaches. A recent study led by Dartmouth College ...

Losing your temper when something sets you off can leave you, after things simmer down, embarrassed, ashamed, and perhaps in trouble with the people you care about the most. Perhaps you were at a ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain. The findings provide new insights that could help inform ...

In today’s high-pressure workplaces, emotions are omnipresent—from quiet frustration over a missed deadline to visible tension during a difficult meeting. Often, these emotional undercurrents stem not ...

We invite submissions for a special issue that explores the multi-layered dynamics of emotion regulation, integrating both intrapersonal strategies and interpersonal contexts in which regulation ...