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.

Emotional self-regulation refers to a person’s ability to manage their emotions and impulses. It is an important part of overall mental and physical well-being. Emotional self-regulation is a skill ...

Emotion regulation refers to an individual’s ability to evaluate and manage their experience and expression of emotions. The ability to do this effectively is key to psychological wellbeing and social ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to identify brain regions unique to emotion regulation in the human brain, providing novel therapeutic approaches. A recent study led by Dartmouth College ...

This is part one of a two-part post. Click here for part two. Life often resembles a rollercoaster of calm moments and intense emotions, especially for those with relational trauma backgrounds. For ...