emotions

New research will set out to examine the emotional world of solitary confinement. Dr Ben Laws from the Institute of Criminology discusses his project...

Jochen Menges, an expert in organisational behaviour, thinks that emotions matter profoundly for employee performance and behaviour. His studies...

The pain we experience as humans has physical and emotional components. Could we develop a machine that feels pain a similar way – and would we want...

Anger often decreases – rather than boosts – a person’s intention to quit a job when they identify strongly with their company, says a new study.

An Android app which keeps tabs on users’ mood swings and works out what might be causing them has been developed by researchers, with implications...

A year-long study on childrens' music-making indicates that playing music in groups on a regular basis greatly improves a child’s ability to...

The emoticons used on Twitter are a language in themselves and are taking on new and often surprising meanings of their own, according to new...

They’ve had viewers cowering behind the sofa since ‘Doctor Who’ began – but what exactly is it that makes people so frightened of the Daleks? A new...