Humans are not machines: emotions control their behavior more often than they realize.

How do feelings arise? Emotion theories provide different answers.

Emotion scientists seek to identify the basic patterns of our feelings.

Fear arises thanks to lightning-fast mechanisms – that do not always react correctly.

Anxiety researcher Hans-Christian Pape on rats, Rottweilers, and the positive aspects of fear.

Without the amygdala, humans lose their sense of fear. With the amygdala, they also recognize the fear of others.

The limbic system does not solely control our emotional life. It also has other functions.

Reason and emotion are not necessarily opposites – they help to evaluate a situation.

There are not only systems for sensory and motor functions, but also one for emotions. Really?