Emotions vs. Moods: What’s the Difference?
Emotions and moods are both feelings, but they are different kinds of feeling. An emotion is a brief, intense response …
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Emotion Regulation: How People Manage What They Feel
Emotion regulation is the set of processes by which people influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and …
Theories of Emotion: James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer, and Beyond
The theories of emotion disagree about a simple question: what comes first — the feeling, the bodily change, or the …
The Psychology of Emotions: What Feelings Are and Why They Matter
An emotion is a short, coordinated response to something that matters to you: a situation is appraised as relevant to …
Observational Learning: How Watching Others Teaches Us
Observational learning is learning by watching: you pick up a behavior by seeing someone else perform it, without having to …
Operant Conditioning: How Consequences Shape Behavior
Operant conditioning is learning from consequences: behaviors followed by rewards tend to recur, behaviors followed by punishments or by nothing …
Classical Conditioning: How Association Creates Learning
Classical conditioning is learning by association: when two stimuli repeatedly occur together, the mind learns that one predicts the other, …
Behavioral Psychology: How Learning Shapes Behavior
Behavioral psychology is the study of how behavior is learned — how experience, consequences, and the environment shape what people …
Negativity Bias: Why Bad News Sticks
Negativity bias is the tendency for negative events, information, and emotions to affect you more strongly than positive or neutral …
The Halo Effect: How One Trait Colours Everything Else
The halo effect is what happens when one striking quality of a person colours your judgment of everything else about …