Helping people regulate their emotions appropriately is important for promoting positive mental health and well-being. Indeed, a key focus of psychotherapy, as well as everyday social relationships, ...

Adolescence is a time of heightened emotion. Stress, excitement, anxiety, frustration, and joy flow through classrooms every day. But how do these emotions affect how students learn and connect with ...

• Self-regulation helps kids manage big emotions and behaviors, but it’s a skill they need to learn over time—and they learn it from their parents. • Parents play a key role in teaching ...

Workplace conflicts can escalate quickly. Psychologists reveal that a short pause before responding helps regulate emotions. This brief break allows the nervous system to relax, preventing impulsive ...

We all experience big, difficult emotions from time to time. Instead of managing difficult feelings like anger, sadness or anxiety, some of us try to push those emotions down. Others let those ...

Feeling strong emotions is healthy. Learning how to regulate emotions and respond with appropriate behavior is essential to a person’s well-being. Lacking emotional self-regulation can perpetuate ...

Most parents want to do right by their children, but miss crucial emotional skills that could change their child’s entire life trajectory. Here’s how parents can raise “emotionally intelligent” kids.

What do Tom Holland, Winston Churchill and King Charles all have in common? I can’t answer that completely comprehensively, but I can tell you that they have all unlocked one of the most important ...

You may think there are no benefits to being modest, but a study found that that modest people are much better at moderating their emotions than, well, their less modest peers. Modesty is an ...

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 ...