Emotions

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

There is no proven treatment for grief, but we can stave off and mitigate its effects, in part by healing our bodies before our brains.

Holding back tears and pretending to be overjoyed is bad for parents' well-being, according to new research.

Yet men who have delayed emotional reactions are looked at more favorably, according to new research.

And what does it have to do with the largest refugee crisis since World War II?

The idea of the psychopath is both comforting and dangerous. The Myth of the Born Criminal helps explain why.

Social exclusion enhances our ability to manage the emotions of others.

New research finds a link between the emotions expressed in Facebook status updates and next-day stock market activity.

And positive psychologists would say that this is a good thing.

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

A new study reveals that expression recognition software performs way better than humans at discriminating between real and fake emotion.

While the idea of a person falling in love with the Eiffel Tower might seem like a relatively new one, it's a kind of affection that's been around forever.

New research suggests that music can lift you out of a funk—if you can truly immerse yourself in its beauty.

New research suggests bright lighting intensifies both positive and negative feelings.

Is it a kind of cheating to give someone a pre-made greeting card?

New research suggests reading literature increases our ability to pick up on the subjective states of others.

New research finds people who read romantic fiction are good at picking up subtle facial clues revealing a person’s emotional state.

Carnegie Mellon researchers have identified distinct patterns of brain activity linked to specific emotions.

The Emotionary is trying to answer that question.

New research suggests males can read the faces of men much better than those of women.

Researchers mining a Google books database report a decline in mood-related words in English-language books over the past 100 years.

Have a challenging mental task ahead of you? Try using Spring from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as background music.

Why is music such a constant in human history? Perhaps because it helps us build the emotional maturity we need to advance intellectually.