Scientists found that emotions have different meanings across 2,474 spoken languages, but that there are universal sources of structure. Scientists found that emotions have different meanings across 2 ...

Do people around the world experience emotions in diverse ways? Or does joy, by any other name, still taste as sweet, and fear still sting as bitter? As with many things that concern our emotions, the ...

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Scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History compared 2474 spoken languages, finding that emotion semantics have been ...

In May 1993, Trinidadian-German Eurodance artist Haddaway posed a crucial query to the world: “What is love?” Haddaway asked his question in English, but he received a range of responses—in part, ...

The Somali word for fear is cabsi. In Tagalog, takot. In Icelandic, ótti. But do these translations communicate the same human experience? Psychology researchers from the University of North Carolina ...

The most burning question on everyone’s mind is what does Ennui mean in Inside Out 2. With the global release of the much-awaited sequel, viewers are abuzz with curiosity about the new emotion ...

Mental-health issues involve a lack of capacity for emotional regulation. Too much unmanaged emotion overpowers our brain's ...

According to a new paper published in the journal Emotion, hope, not happiness, might be key to giving our lives meaning. The article, authored by University of Missouri researchers, looked at six ...