Yesterday I wrote about emotion regulation and how this is seen as an essential part of achieving good mental health. Emotion regulation is about being able to monitor, judge, and work with emotional responses in order to achieve goals. People with chronic pain often experience a range of negative emotions – pain itself is characterised … Read more... BERKING, M., W
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September 15, 2010
What to do when feeling low, grumpy or fatigued…
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August 13, 2010
Angry People Pay More Attention To Rewards Than Threats
Anger is a negative emotion. But, like being happy or excited, feeling angry makes people want to seek rewards, according to a new study of emotion and visual attention. The researchers found that people who are angry pay more attention to rewards than to threats - the opposite of people feeling other negative emotions like fear...
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June 9, 2010
Positive emotions increase with old age; while negative emotions decline
Image via WikipediaAs per a new study reported in PNAS, positive emotions and hedonic well being, like happiness and enjoyment, increase past the age of 50 (after reaching a nadir at that age) , while negative emotions , like stress, worry and anger decline with age throughout.This is the conclusion that Stone et al reached More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related posts:Schizophrenia
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May 19, 2010
What Is The Desire Behind Binge Eating?
A German study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics explores what is behind binge eating. Several studies have suggested that negative emotions may have a causal impact on the occurrence of binge eating in binge eating disorder (BED)...
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February 19, 2010
Your left brain has a bigger ego than your right brain
Psychologists have used an inventive combination of techniques to show that the left half of the brain has more self-esteem than the right half. The finding is consistent with earlier research showing that the left hemisphere is associated more with positive, approach-related emotions, whereas the right hemisphere is associated more with negative emotions. Ryan McKay and colleagues used a version
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February 12, 2010
Study Shows Those With Anxiety Disorder Less Able To Regulate Response To Negative Emotions
People with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, have abnormalities in the way their brain unconsciously controls emotions. That's the conclusion of a new Stanford University School of Medicine study, and the study authors say the findings could open up new avenues for treatments and change our understanding of how emotion is regulated in everyday life...
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January 21, 2010
Thinking it through: How cognitive responses to emotions impact our vulnerability to stress, anxiety, and worry
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Everybody has their own way of responding to negative emotions. Some of us work to change such feelings while others of us accept negative emotions non-judgmentally as a natural occurrence. Some of us brood over...
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December 18, 2009
Negative emotions outweigh intent to exercise at health clubs
With only 30 percent of Americans trying to lose weight meeting the National Institutes of Health exercise guidelines of 300 minutes/week, a new study explores the paradox that exists -- an antidote for obesity and its comorbidities is exercise, but the majority of obese Americans do not exercise. Investigators explore and compare the barriers associated with regular exercise in health clubs betw
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December 1, 2009
Mad As Hell? New Discoveries About The Experience Of Anger
Younger people, those with children and less-educated individuals are more likely to experience anger, according to new UofT research that examines one of the most common negative emotions in society...
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November 19, 2009
Introverts Experience More Health Problems
People who experience a lot of negative emotions and do not express these experience more health problems, says Dutch researcher Aline Pelle. She discovered that heart failure patients with a negative outlook reported their complaints to a physician or nurse far less often. The personality of the partner can also exert a considerable influence on these patients. Aline Pelle investigated patien
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