Emotion words are handy things. They help you put your experiences into neat little boxes–wrap them up into packages you can give others to share your perspective. Telling a friend you feel “sad” may ...

Many people think of a dictionary as just a book to find word meanings or spellings. But there are many other kinds of dictionaries that help us understand human emotions in richer ways. These special ...

We tend to think of emotions as simple, hard-wired responses. You see a hungry lion, you feel fear. You smell a pile of rotting garbage, you feel disgust. But according to fascinating new science, ...

I love words so hard, which is a big reason of why I write (although this sentence is far from a glowing example of my work). However, many times words—at least English ones—can hardly begin to ...