When Paul Ekman was a grad student in the 1950s, psychologists were mostly ignoring emotions. Most psychology research at the time was focused on behaviorism—classical conditioning and the like.

Many people think of a dictionary as just a book to find word meanings or spellings. But there are many other kinds of dictionaries that help us understand human emotions in richer ways. These special ...

Sometimes it's hard to explain exactly how you feel. This handy vocabulary wheel helps you narrow down exactly what word best expresses your current emotional state. Whether you're writing or talking ...

The Sound Word Index aims to organize the letter repetition and onomatopoeia that people use in their digital communications into a kind of dictionary. The Sound Word Index aims to organize the letter ...

Feelings, nothing more than feelings -- whoa, whoa, whoa. As the classic song shows us, feelings can be difficult to express. So difficult that we don't have words for many emotions we experience ...

That sort of painful, sort of bittersweet, sort of wistful feeling you get looking out the window or driving at night or listening to a far-off train whistle? There's a word for that in Japanese. By ...

Life is full of difficult emotions. That’s unavoidable. What you do with those difficult emotions is what determines your level of emotional intelligence. According to best-selling author and star ...

Dictionary.com has crowned “6-7” as its 2025 Word of the Year, marking the rise of a Gen Alpha slang term that has swept ...