When making decisions, humans are susceptible to all sorts of biases, relative to rational norms. An important factor is incidental changes in affective states, such as variations in mood between ...

Circadian (near 24 hour) clocks are a physiological advantage for living organisms allowing them to anticipate and synchronize to external temporal cues such as the light–dark (LD) cycle, and ...

Mood disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. These types of psychiatric disorders affect a person’s emotions and may cause severe lows, called depression, and highs, called mania ...

Nicole McDermott has worked in the creative content space for the last decade as a writer, editor and director. Her work has been featured on TIME Healthland, Prevention, Shape, USA Today, HuffPost, ...

Moods and emotions play an important role in our day-to-day life. They even influence how we experience things – for instance, whether we start the day feeling hopeful and energised or grumpy and ...

While it’s normal for the challenges of daily life to cause occasional changes in your mood, sometimes there may be a more serious underlying cause. “It can be hard to tell what normal fluctuations in ...

Most people experience passing periods of sadness or negative feelings in their everyday lives. Normally, these feelings are relatively short-lived and do not have a long-lasting impact on how people ...