Birds of a feather flock together, indeed! A new study from the University of Indiana finds that happy people tend to tweet together; the same holds true for unhappy people, too. Researchers tracked 102,000 users over a six-month period, analyzing the emotional context of their tweets by the amount of positive and negative words they contained. The result: happier people tend to associate Read more

This question comes from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! To start off, I'm not a very emotional person. I don't think it's a bad thing though, because I am usually happy all the time. Carefree if you will. Things just don't bother me. I rarely if ever get upset. What causes most, if not all of the ends of my relationships is that I think a man Read more

While the pill celebrates 50 years of blocking sperm, a new study says it makes women more possessive and paranoid about their partners' fidelity. I'm not down with women using periods as an excuse to behave badly — or men using it to dismiss emotions — but anyone who's ever had a bad birth control experience would probably agree it can ambush the mood. The study does illustrate one Read more

Laughing too hard is my favorite reason to cry. A wedding might be my second favorite tearful occasion. And like most everyone else, I've also cried when stressed, sad, or in pain. Humans have plenty of causes to cry, but we're the only species that sheds tears for emotional reasons. This has prompted psychologists to look into evolutionary explanations for why we cry. They found that crying Read more

"There's a place for crying," Joan says on an episode of Mad Men, "and it's your apartment." This would make sense in an ideal world, but it's not always easy to control yourself in real life. Witnessing someone cry can be nearly as bad as crying the tears. Some people will just ignore, while others will look concerned, hand out tissues, ask the person if she's OK, or start an all-out Read more

Are you cursed and blessed with a good sense of smell? Cursed because you smell every ungodly stink no matter how far away, and blessed because lovely smells affect you deeply? Psychology professor Denise Chen at Rice University thinks you may also be more empathetic than your olfaction-challenged neighbor. Sense of smell and emotions come from the same area of the brain (the limbic system), and Read more

We all know that when we're in a bad mood, a joke can temporarily lift our spirits. But Dutch researchers set out to figure out precisely why. And although you may think, as many researchers do, that it's because positive emotions counteract negative ones — the researchers set out to prove that it's more than that. They showed a group of men and women a series of pictures. First, they were Read more

Researchers have concluded that how you perceive time – either actively or passively — can reveal whether you are quick to anger or tend to be placid. In one test, they asked participants if they were told a Wednesday meeting were moved forward two days, which day would it now be on? Those who said Friday, according to researchers, saw themselves as moving through time (in other words, Read more