Identifying emotions through language can decrease the intensity of the emotional response. Research shows that affect labeling reduces amygdala activation, facilitating cognitive control.

Suppressed emotions were a necessary adaptation to a childhood environment that felt unsafe, but in adulthood, continuing that pattern can become its own form of isolation.

This research addresses the challenge of multi-label emotion classification on imbalanced datasets using a BERT-based model. Emotion classification, essential for applications like social media ...

Discover how modern psychology shows emotions as tools for personal growth, better decision-making, and emotional intelligence development.

Affect labeling works on the idea of cognitive reappraisal, where we rethink the meaning of our emotions. Affect labeling shows that we can handle life's challenges, no matter how tough they are.

Ever since, Brackett has been fascinated with emotional intelligence. Brackett describes emotional intelligence as a complex field that refers to human reasoning and understanding of emotions. The ...

We label emotions as “good” or “bad”: happiness is good, anger and sadness are bad. And we may discourage or shy away from any “bad” emotions our children express that might make us ...

It can be helpful to name your feelings, but as one 21-year-old college junior learned in therapy, it can be just as helpful to simply let the feeling exist.

Researchers have found that alexithymia is not just about the inability to label emotions. It’s also linked to difficulties in recognizing and processing emotional cues from others.