Emotions
Dreams Help Triage Emotions, Storing Positive and Dampening Negative Ones
A new study from the University of Bern, Switzerland shows the process by which REM sleep can help us process emotions
What Dogs Are Actually Thinking When You Kiss Them
Planting your lips on someone is associated with affection among humans—but do dogs understand kisses? Should you really peck your pup? Newsweek asked the experts.
Internet Split Over Wife Who Secretly Filmed and Posted Husband Crying
Although some appreciated the message that the influencer was sharing, others felt she should not have posted what they perceived as a private moment.
How Seasonal Changes Affect Your Dog
Dogs are capable of reading human emotion but can our perceptive furry friends also experience sadness, depression and even Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Mice Have Different Facial Expressions For Different Emotions
Changes in the facial expressions of mice can be hard for the human observer to make out, so researchers used machine learning.
Love Your Partner? The Psychology May Be More Complex
Even when everything's going great in your relationship, deep down you likely harbor some ambivalence toward your partner. Psychology research suggests it's not just OK, but normal.
Goats Know When You're Happy and Like You Better for It
These four-legged friends are far more intelligent than you might think.
Google Glass Helps Children With Autism See Emotions
In a Stanford experiment, children wore the glasses for at least 20 minutes three times a week.
You're Not the Only One: Loneliness Soars in America
It wasn't clear if social media played a role in the epidemic of loneliness in America.
Dogs Understand and React to Human Emotions
Fido may really know when you're having a bad day.
Should You Trust Your Gut Instinct?
Our gut feelings may be more rational than we think.
How You Hug—From Left or Right—May Show How You Feel
Researchers observed more than 2,500 embraces at an airport's departures and arrivals areas for their data.
Why 'This Is Us' Makes You Cry So Much
The effect is similar to eating highly processed foods, an expert explains.
Do Doctors Pay Enough Attention to Stress?
Your stress affects other people, and vice versa—even if you're a doctor.
Does Too Much Information Cause Us to Be Bad Consumers?
Embedding sustainable ideals into everyday life is fraught with difficulties.
How Punctuation Became a Mark of Aggression
In certain types of online communication, it's stranger to use a period than not.
Why AI Can Scan But Not Understand Human Emotions
Will there ever be a robot psychiatrist? Not for the foreseeable future.
Autistic People Make More Logical Decisions
A condition called "emotional blindness" causes people with autism to ignore their emotions when making a decision.
What Do Child Psychiatrists Think of 'Inside Out'?
The strange emotional truths contained in Pixar's latest film.
Smartphone-Controlled Headset That Aims to Alter Moods Released in U.S.
Tech company Thync have released a device which they claim can calm you down or pump you up.
