But don’t be fooled by the twinkles in Envy’s eyes or Anxiety’s raised-right-off-her-head eyebrows; these adorable animated characters—and everything else in the brain-based film—are actually far more ...

Emotions are a fundamental part of human psychology—a complex process that has long distinguished us from machines. Even advanced artificial intelligence (AI) lacks the capacity to feel. However, ...

In the most recent Inside Out movie, the main character Riley enters puberty, and several new emotion characters enter the space. These include anxiety, envy, embarrassment, ennui, and spot ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain. The findings provide new insights that could help inform ...

Emotions are a fundamental part of human psychology-a complex process that has long distinguished us from machines. Even advanced artificial intelligence (AI) lacks the capacity to feel. However, ...

These types of emotions are unpleasant to experience and can even feel overwhelming. People often try to avoid them, suppress them, or ignore them. In fact, in psychology experiments, people will pay ...

As you sit and watch a goldfish swim in its bowl or a school of fish glide effortlessly through the open sea, you can’t help ...

Can understanding the source of your emotions help you make better decisions? Participants were assessed for ability to understand emotions and were then told they would have to give a video-recorded ...

This story was originally published on June 14, 2024. We are republishing it on the occasion of Inside Out 2's arrival on Disney+ on Sept. 25, 2024. But don’t be fooled by the twinkles in Envy’s eyes ...