Putting the exact name to what you feel
Why naming an emotion calms it
What you learn hereExplain why putting words to an emotion lowers its intensity —a real but modest effect that also goes unnoticed while it happens— and pick the more exact label for what you feel.
This page summarises the lesson and cites its sources. The full lesson —animated, narrated, with its practice— opens with the Lifetime Pass, along with the rest of the course and everything to come.
See the Pass — CA$39 →SourcesLieberman et al., 2007 (amygdala) · Lieberman et al., 2011 (4 studies; what people predict) · Torre & Lieberman, 2018 (a review) · Updated 2026-07-25