A mixed set of daily activities can prompt both positive and negative activities, but that's not a bad thing, researchers say.
Spending time outdoors and helping to control fears can help children process their negative emotions.
In mice, the insular cortex processes negative emotions and bodily discomfort. The findings shed light on emotional processing in animals and humans.
While generally associated with positive feeling, nostalgia is actually a mixed emotion. When experienced over the course of daily life, nostalgia is predominantly a negative emotion.
Researchers report brain alterations associated with heightened feelings of negative emotion and alienation in people who have a dependence on cannabis.
Why do we seem to enjoy movies and art that are emotionally negative or designed to make us feel sad? Researchers from Max Planck Institute have developed a new model that may help explain this paradox.
According to researchers, people may try to invoke negative emotions in others for altruistic reasons, not simply for their own benefit.
