Imagine that you are a clinician who delivers psychological treatment to depressed clients. Would you be able to alleviate the prolonged sadness of your clients by “prescribing” them high doses of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated already rising rates of burnout among American health care workers. A new Northwestern University study found learning and practicing skills that increase positive ...

Emotional granularity, or differentiation, reflects how precisely people perceive, experience, and label emotional states (Barrett et al., 2001). Closely related but conceptually distinct is emotion ...

Regarding theories that hypothesize a bipolar relation between positive and negative emotions, the most influential model is probably the circumplex model of affect proposed by Russell (1980).