What looks like emotional avoidance may be an adaptive response shaped by culture, hierarchy, and the need to protect ...

People who hide their feelings may be at risk of several mental health conditions. It can also affect relationships and life span. People may hide their feelings for several reasons. Yet hiding ...

Feelings: Can we have them in the workplace? There seems to be a well-perpetuated myth that when you enter the office, you should leave your feelings at the door. Work is not a place where you can ...

Nearly everyone hides their feelings from time to time. Say your partner reveals something at a family gathering you asked them to keep private. You’re upset and embarrassed, but you pretend ...

If you’ve hoped that sharing feelings would solve your relationship problems and been a little disappointed by how it plays out, it may be time to kick the tires on this supposed magic-bullet solution ...

Feeling our feelings—contrary to long-held popular opinion that it is somehow weak—is remarkably hard work. Which is why we engage in frequent avoidance techniques so we don’t have to feel them: ...

Love, attraction, and emotions don't always make sense. For instance, even if you're already in a relationship, it's possible to fall in love with someone else. Even if you usually date a certain ...

Feelings have gotten a bad rap in business. We’re conditioned to believe they are less legitimate than thoughts. We all know the saying, “It’s not personal, it’s just business.” This statement implies ...

Survival depends on the maintenance of the body's physiology within an optimal homeostatic range. This process relies on fast detection of potentially deleterious changes in body state and on ...

Ask a high school student how he or she typically feels at school, and the answer you’ll likely hear is “tired,” closely followed by “stressed” and “bored.” In a nationwide survey of 21,678 U.S. high ...