Control may play a crucial role in regulating emotional reactivity, with this regulation potentially differing between older and younger adults across various emotional subtypes. Research suggests that perceptions of control tend to decrease with age, which may result in older adults being more sensitive...
Britton, W. B., Shahar, B., Szepsenwol, O., & Jacobs, W. J. (2012). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy improves emotional reactivity to social stress: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Behavior Therapy, 43(2), 365–380. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2011.08.006. ArticlePubMedPubMed Cen...
& Gross, 2011; Sheppes et al., 2014), and asked remitted individuals with bipolar I disorder (n = 25) and healthy individuals (n = 26) to view standardized positive and negative images of high and low intensity, and choose reappraisal or distraction to decrease their emotion intensity. Re...
The eCALM trialis a therapy program for cancer patients. It found that mindfulness can reduce the physical symptoms of stress, decrease one's emotional reactivity to negative experiences, and facilitate post-traumatic growth while enhancing energy and relieving fatigue. ...
Adding to the complexity of this discussion is the distinction between non-self experiences (something personally encountered, undergone, or lived through) as states (short-term, transitory), or as a trait (long-term, lasting). Thus, in the case of trait, experience is altered in such a way...
Deep breathing can be a powerful tool to calm the nervous system and reduce emotional intensity. When you feel the urge to cry, take slow, deep breaths. Inhale through your nose, hold your breath for a few seconds, then exhale slowly through your mouth. This can help decrease the immediate...
We interpret this as evidence showing that nature is indeed able to restore individuals from stress, and as a lack of evidence that the administered urban exposure additionally heightens amygdala activity. We observed a decrease in amygdala activity after the walk in nature not only during fearful,...
Thus, participants show generalized negative reciprocity: they transmit unfairness to innocent third persons8. Further, emotion regulation strategies were shown to decrease direct negative reciprocity in the ultimatum game13,14. The following questions remain open: 1) Does message writing as an emotion ...
to psychologically detach from the work demands. Given the stress-relieving functions of humour, we hypothesised that affiliative humour during breaks would attenuate affective impairments related to time pressure and would decrease negative emotional spillover from breaks to subsequent work. We conducted ...
Overall, brain scans of people with ADHD have consistently found many differences including a reduced density of gray matter, alterations in the composition of white matter, and even a slight decrease in total brain volume. The maturation of the cortical areas, vital for attention, has been obser...