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Happiness Is Possible With a History of Anxiety

Happiness Is Possible With a History of Anxiety

Mental health conditions like anxiety can interfere in almost any aspect of people’s lives, with real consequences. And yet, in the long-run, that doesn’t mean happiness is unobtainable. I’m not saying that ...
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/ / Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Happiness, Positive Psychology
Working Memory Training Might Help With Regulating Emotions

Working Memory Training Might Help With Regulating Emotions

Working memory is a type of memory that, well, does a lot of work. It’s the type of memory you use when you’re doing a task and you need to keep relevant ...
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/ / Cognitive Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Memory
2 Reasons Self-Control and Forgiveness Go Hand-in-Hand

2 Reasons Self-Control and Forgiveness Go Hand-in-Hand

Forgive and forget? Easier said than done, but also easier to do if you have high levels of self-control, it turns out. Previous psychology studies have repeatedly pointed to a link between ...
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/ / Anger, Behavioral Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Forgiveness, Perfectionism, Self-Control
Resources and Studies on the Psychological Impact of Coronavirus

Resources and Studies on the Psychological Impact of Coronavirus

It seems like one can’t check the headlines these days without some disconcerting bit of news about novel coronavirus, aka COVID-19, popping up. At least, that’s true in my hometown of San ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology, Stress & Trauma
Are Bad Memories Useful?

Are Bad Memories Useful?

Our memories about our own lives are one of the primary ways we make sense of who we are and how the world works. As I’ve written about before, there are at ...
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/ / Cognitive Psychology, Memory, Positive Psychology
General Language Skills Might Help With Learning Programming Languages

General Language Skills Might Help With Learning Programming Languages

Is learning a programming language like learning any other kind of language? Intuitively, you might expect the answer to be no. Programming languages are made up of different components than natural languages, ...
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/ / Cognitive Psychology, Language, Memory, Performance Psychology
What Label Do People on the Autism Spectrum Prefer?

What Label Do People on the Autism Spectrum Prefer?

A label might be "just a label," but when that label is applied to a person it can have significance. That’s why people with neurological or mental health conditions often have preferences ...
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/ / Autism, Clinical Psychology
A Text-Message Treatment for Social Anxiety

A Text-Message Treatment for Social Anxiety

Online interventions are a promising new way of providing mental health support, as I’ve written about before. And the logical conclusion of that idea is that if we can treat mental health ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Media Psychology & Technology, Social Anxiety, Treatment
People With "Dark Triad" Personality Traits Aren't Necessarily Emotionally Cold

People With “Dark Triad” Personality Traits Aren’t Necessarily Emotionally Cold

You might suspect that people who engage in callous or manipulative behavior would tend to be emotionally colder. Intuitively, that could even be a plausible explanation as to why those individuals would ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Narcissism, Personality
When Are Teens Comfortable Talking With Their Moms About Sex?

When Are Teens Comfortable Talking With Their Moms About Sex?

Parents are a useful resource for teenagers to learn about sex and sexual health. Of course, that doesn’t mean teens are going to go out of their way to engage their parents ...
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/ / Developmental Psychology, Parenting, Sex, Teens