“We Think Others Feel Worse Than They Do, And It May Be Helping Our Relationships”

A playful illustration of expressive faces symbolising how people often overestimate the intensity of others’ emotions a bias that research suggests may foster empathy and strengthen relationships. (Image: AI Generated)

People regularly misjudge how strongly others feel, especially when it comes to negative emotions such as sadness, anger or fear. New research published in Nature Communications shows that, in everyday life, most of us tend to assume that others’ emotions are more intense than those people say they actually feel. What the researchers did Psychologists from […]