Empathy is partly unconscious and automatic, and we vary in the degree to which we have learned to embrace empathy. Some, like Sebastian, require transformational experiences before we can enhance our ...

Like all emotions, anger serves a purpose. Like the cry of a baby–to be fed or held–a child’s or adult’s anger generally arises from some form of distress. The baby’s cry, a call for assistance, ...

An empath is someone who experiences the emotions of others deeply. The experience including both pain and joy. Empaths also feel more strongly for others and can recognize emotions from subtle facial ...

A study investigating the effects of alcohol on emotion recognition and empathy found that alcohol impairs the recognition of anger, but not other specific emotions. Participants who drank alcohol ...

Anger is the kind of feeling people try to tamp down, out of fear that it will ignite and explode. Pretending your anger doesn't exist causes it to compress itself, making a home in the small space of ...

We all know someone who seems to carry a storm cloud around with them, seemingly furious at the world. While it’s tempting to chalk it up to a short fuse or a bad day, there's often more going on ...