Recently, a client sat across from me, tense and frustrated: “I meditate, I journal, I try to reframe my thoughts, but this anxiety and brain fog won’t go away. What am I missing?” I’ve heard versions ...

As the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, I recently warned that we are facing an overreaction epidemic. The response to my warning has been, perhaps predictably, extreme.

Emotions are powerful, complex, and necessary. In fact, it's often emotions that keep us alive. That feeling of fear you get when you see a snake is an emotion, and it comes from the part of the brain ...

What is your relationship with your emotions on a daily basis? Some of us might deny that we’re influenced by our feelings at all. Others might try to leave our emotions behind when we move into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Kruse covers leadership development & emotional intelligence. When psychologists John Mayer, Peter Salovey, and David Caruso ...