Do people around the world experience emotions in diverse ways? Or does joy, by any other name, still taste as sweet, and fear still sting as bitter? As with many things that concern our emotions, the ...

Scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History compared 2474 spoken languages, finding that emotion semantics have been ...

Fear, anger, sadness - while it is often assumed these emotion concepts are the same the world over, new research suggests there is greater cross-cultural variation in "how people think about emotions ...

Scientists found that emotions have different meanings across 2,474 spoken languages, but that there are universal sources of structure. Scientists found that emotions have different meanings across 2 ...

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but things are a bit more complicated when it comes to the names that we give emotions. Words in one language used to describe a feeling — whether it be ...

You’re having a pleasant evening at home after a particularly stressful day. Part of what’s gotten you through the day was knowing that a package was going to be delivered that evening with a present ...