But don’t be fooled by the twinkles in Envy’s eyes or Anxiety’s raised-right-off-her-head eyebrows; these adorable animated characters—and everything else in the brain-based film—are actually far more ...

In the most recent Inside Out movie, the main character Riley enters puberty, and several new emotion characters enter the space. These include anxiety, envy, embarrassment, ennui, and spot ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain. The findings provide new insights that could help inform ...

Researchers have discovered how inferred emotions are learned. The study shows that the frontal part of the brain coordinates with the amygdala -- a brain region important for simple forms of ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Last month, Microsoft integrated its Bing search engine with Open AI’s GPT-4 chatbot, a large language model designed to interact with ...

As you sit and watch a goldfish swim in its bowl or a school of fish glide effortlessly through the open sea, you can’t help but imagine what they’d be like as uncomplicated, instinct-driven creatures ...

These types of emotions are unpleasant to experience and can even feel overwhelming. People often try to avoid them, suppress them, or ignore them. In fact, in psychology experiments, people will pay ...

Whether it's a dog cuddling up to its owner on a bad day or a cat purring in response to affection, these behaviors suggest that pets have an intuitive understanding of human emotions. But is there ...

This story was originally published on June 14, 2024. We are republishing it on the occasion of Inside Out 2's arrival on Disney+ on Sept. 25, 2024. But don’t be fooled by the twinkles in Envy’s eyes ...