Emotional regulation is more than simply “keeping our cool.” It’s about understanding our triggers, recognizing stress, and finding ways to respond rather than react.

Being assertive and setting boundaries isn't mean or wrong. In fact, it's one of the best ways to protect your mental health. Here's how to get started.

Highly sensitive people feel stress more keenly—but they also gain more from positive experiences. Here's how it works.

Humans carry millions of years of evolutionary pressure to acquire more resources and higher social status. But it’s our relationships that really make our lives fulfilling today.

Here are 4 ways that religion and spirituality can bolster psychological well-being. Plus, learn how they can protect against various mental health challenges.

"This is the paradox at the heart of being human. We are finite beings who dream of permanence. And so we build lives, legacies, and ideas so that we can last and endure in a creative defiance of time."

If you've ever felt scattered in your interests or pulled toward too many things to count, maybe that's not a flaw you have to stamp out. Maybe it's actually a decision-making advantage. Here's why.

When you feel intense and immediate sexual attraction to someone else, some experts advise, it might be best to resist it and run in the other direction—especially if you're idealizing them.

People who view their own aging positively tend to be healthier, more satisfied with life, and live longer. Here's how to take a cue from them, by @AnuRealo

With each cycle of seeking love and failing to get it in their life, an individual might notice that what they’ve been drawn to isn’t a form of love after all. Instead, it might be one of these dysfunctional patterns.

Narcissistic parents are typically more focused on appearances and admiration from others and have little mental space to care for children the way healthy parents might. Here is the lifetime cost for the child.

Fear learning shapes the brain. The process of extinction is the attempt to undo that learning, replacing it with new knowledge that the cue no longer means harm, explains @WmHaseltine

When a child is unhappy because they can't connect with peers and make friends, parents might want to check out whether they are having difficulty with nonverbal communication. This is why.

"When the world shifts beneath us through trauma, illness, or loss, creativity provides more than distraction—it helps us make meaning."

While resilience can involve a family that believes in you and pushes you to be your best self, too much pressure can also threaten a young person's health, explains @MichaelUngarPhD

As many adults know, what they experience as endlessly boring a child might consider fast and exciting. It's no myth: Both physiological and psychological reasons explain the phenomenon, writes @CogitoErgoDwyer

While growing up, some people felt like their feelings were invisible, their needs were unimportant, or their accomplishments were brushed aside. This is emotional erasure, and its effects can be long-lasting, writes @jwebbphd

When bad things happen, focusing on these 5 strengths from positive psychology can help pull us through.

When an explanation is coherent, well-structured, and easy to follow, we tend to trust it, whether it comes from a human or AI. Here’s why we shouldn’t be so fast to believe.

"Purpose isn't just about achieving something monumental. It's about finding meaning in the small, everyday moments that light you up."