Are emotions always perfectly in touch with reality? Absolutely not. They’re based on our perceptions, and our perceptions aren’t always in line with reality. That’s the goal, though—to get our ...

A new study of college students in India has shown that while internet access has become central to academic life, it has ...

On her first full day of preschool, Alexander Lane’s 3-year-old daughter stayed in the car for an hour at drop-off because she didn’t want to go inside. On the second day, she entered class in tears.

Temporary feelings of anxiety may have a larger impact on a person’s ability to distinguish between threat and safety than a general tendency to feel anxious. The corresponding study was published in ...

I can’t pinpoint exactly when I developed anxiety, but that’s because I didn’t know about it. When I was growing up, I didn’t hear about the topic of mental health unless it was the butt of a joke.

In August 2024, on the third day of the Democratic National Convention, vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz's son, Gus Walz, went viral for emotionally cheering on his father. "Hope, Gus and Gwen.