It is commonplace in philosophy and psychology to divide emotions into two groups: basic and complex emotions. Complex emotions, such as grief, regret, and jealousy, have highly variable appearances ...

Emotions are an important part of human intelligence. Identifying specific emotional categories from complex neural patterns, i.e., the neural decoding of emotional information, is a key issue in ...

Are facial expressions of emotion culturally specific, or universal? For decades, the dominant view has been that they are universal, at least when it comes to a set of "basic" emotions: fear, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Emotions are related to mood, personality and motivation, and they cause measurable ...

Animated children’s films have long endeavored to teach young viewers how to manage their emotions. Disney Pixar’s Inside Out (2015) made this task of emotional regulation literal. Joy, Sadness, Anger ...

For centuries, emotions were undervalued, misunderstood, and even demonized by philosophers and theologians. They were seen as obstacles to rational thought, a view that permeated our understanding of ...

A new study has revealed that Caenorhabditis elegans, a roundworm commonly used in scientific research, could possibly possess primitive “emotions”. Although humans have anthropomorphized animal ...

The latest trailer for "Inside Out 2" introduced new emotions, including Ayo Edebiri as Envy and Paul Walter Hauser as Embarrassment. The Pixar sequel to the 2015 film, which followed five personified ...

The concept of "basic" or "primary" emotions dates back at least to the Book of Rites, a first-century Chinese encyclopedia that identifies seven "feelings of men": joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, ...