We all have songs that make us happy, but sometimes music evokes more complex emotions. Christine Mohn, a psychologist at the University of Oslo, asked 115 students to listen to a series of music ...

In part 1 of this series on disgust, I explored the cultural evolution of the disgust response from a mechanism to protect the body from pathogens, to a way by which society created rules for moral ...

Forget the conventional thinking that humans are complex creatures with a wide range of emotions. New research suggest we only have four. The widely held scientific assumption is that we have six ...