As social creatures, we like to think we're good at reading others' emotions. After all, isn’t understanding a friend’s sorrow or a colleague’s frustration key to building meaningful ...

We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism or social anxiety can be helped by interventions focused ...

Most people are able to read others to some degree, but those on the autism spectrum or individuals afflicted with psychotic disorders may struggle to discern the emotions or social cues of others.

Explicit SEL instruction: Schools can provide explicit social-emotional instruction to explain concepts like impulse control, emotional regulation, and goal-setting. These lessons should also help ...

Since the rise of Positive Psychology in the 1990s, mind-heart scientists have focused on the effect of more positive, expansive, and pro-social emotions on heart health. I call this collection of ...