In any social situation, whether it’s a business negotiation, a first date, or a casual conversation, what someone says may not always clearly show what they truly feel. Beneath polite smiles or ...

Fast Company recently interviewed Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, a senior researcher at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, on what it means to lead a creative life. In this essay, she shares one ...

Human behavior is fascinating. At times, it feels as if everyone around us is an open book—until you realize the book is written in Cantonese and you only speak Spanish. Reading people isn’t a science ...

Humans are social beings, hardwired to navigate complex interactions through signals that communicate our internal states. Of all the channels we use to perceive emotion, the human face is arguably ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...

Emotion has a bad reputation in decision-making—being emotional is often seen as counter to rational thought and good decision-making. People often have the idea that if emotions can be avoided or ...

Emotions are the responses we have to things happening around us. They are sometimes used interchangeably with mood and feelings, which is a common misunderstanding. Emotions like hunger give rise to ...