emotion

Technology used to only deliver our messages. Now it wants to write them for us by understanding our emotions.

Walk like you're angry, and the emotionally intelligent machine will give you more room, leaving your personal bubble intact.

Why we need to be proud of and take joy from our machines, even if they are more powerful than we are.

Like bats, dolphins and some other cetaceans use echolocation to find their prey. However, cetaceans continue the feeding buzz after they have captured their prey, suggesting the sound may also have emotional content.

Calves are affected by the emotional pain of separation from their mother and the physical pain of dehorning. A new study finds that both types of pain can result in a negative cognitive bias similar to pessimism.

To build the first sentiment engine that could actually understand real-time tweets, we had to start from scratch, asking the question: how can big data combine with human insight to change the way we interact with our world?

A new experiment purports to show that humiliation is an intense emotion. While we respect these neuroscientists and their work, that is not exactly a revelation to anyone who has experienced humiliation.

Traditional depictions of Jesus crucified show him with his left cheek facing forward. Modern neuroscience has actually shown the importance of the left cheek in facial expression and how our brains interpret emotion.

Scientists are tickling rats. For science. Wired Science blogger Mary Bates explains why making lab rats laugh is important.

During intense emotional experiences, there's a fleeting moment when expressions of pleasure and pain are hard to distinguish. In fact, others read intense emotion more effectively by looking at a person's body language than by watching his facial expressions, a new study suggests.

A just-surfaced patent application from Research in Motion (RIM) details a smartphone feature that determines a sender's emotional state while texting. It all keys into accelerometers, cameras and galvanic skin-response sensors.

An analysis of mood patterns distilled from half a billion tweets has produced a civilization-scale picture of how moods rise and fall in tandem, over time and across the world.

If you’ve ever been rejected by a loved one, you knows that it hurts. Think of the language that we use to describe the feeling – hurt, pain, broken hearts, heartache, and so on. Across cultures, many of the same words are used to describe social rejection and bodily pain. Is this all just metaphor, or are […]