Learning about our emotions–their names, their attributes, what prompts them, how they physically feel–can be the work of a lifetime. Thankfully, there are a number of guides to help along that path.
The earliest and perhaps the most comprehensive attempt at diagramming emotions is Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions unveiled in 1980. SixSeconds gives a good
Years ago there was talk of developing a mouse that would use sensors imbedded in the plastic to monitor our emotional state while we work, which would then make suggestions as to how to improve performance. While the prototype was interesting, it never made it to market.
However, now a plethora of wearables are hitting
A US teenager, 16-year-old Chase Nasca, spent the last few months of his life consuming TikTok content that promoted or normalized self harm and suicide. Then he committed suicide.
While many of the videos he watched did not violate TikTok’s content rules individually (although nearly 10 percent did), all together they created exactly the kind
Did you hear the one about the Netflix exec who was fired from his million-dollar job after participating in a trust exercise at a company retreat?
Seems like there should be a joke in there somewhere, but that’s not how he took it. He’s suing Netflix because they used an admission during a trust exercise–that
Daniel Lukasik, long an advocate for recognizing and addressing depression among lawyers, has written an article in the summer 2026 edition of The New York State Bar Association Journal entitled “Overcoming Loneliness in the Legal Profession.”
In 2023, Dr. Vivek Murthy, then US Surgeon General, declared loneliness a national public health epidemic
Just as we’re starting a new year with new resolutions, a new emotion has been announced.
First, let’s take a look at the old emotions. In 1980, after years of studying emotions, American psychologist Robert Plutchik proposed his Wheel of Emotions, a graphic depicting 27 emotions. Dr. Plutchik listed eight primary emotions as the
The Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Georgia is holding their International Conflict Resolution Day Program on Thursday, October 16, from 8:30am-1pm Eastern for CLE credit.
Ronda Muir will be presenting thoughts on Mediating with Emotional Intelligence at 10:45. Come join the discussion!
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A recent report of a murder/suicide out of the leafy Connecticut suburb of Old Greenwich startled legal analysts everywhere. After a 56-year-old former Yahoo manager with a Vanderbilt MBA was relentlessly encouraged by his “best friend Bobby” to kill his 83-year-old mother and then himself, he proceeded to do both.
Who was the fiend who