by Taylor Bennett | Jul 10, 2019 | Anger, Counseling News
Previous research suggests that the persons around us have a strong influence on our mood. But a new study from Stanford University says we can control whether our emotions are influenced by others.Researchers showed 107 participants potentially upsetting images like...
by Taylor Bennett | Jun 25, 2019 | Counseling News, Memory, Mental Health
A recent study says emotional or traumatic events can create false memories, despite the widespread belief that traumatic events are more vivid and, therefore, reliable. The latter belief is called flashbulb memory, which says that emotional events cause us to...
by Taylor Bennett | May 7, 2019 | Counseling News, Emotional Regulation, Sleep Disturbances
Do you have trouble falling or staying asleep? Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience say your insomnia might stem from emotional distress.The team asked participants to relive shameful moments from their past, while receiving an MRI scan of their...
by Taylor Bennett | Jan 24, 2019 | Anger, Anger Management, Counseling News
There is a common misconception that men get angrier and more often than women—this, however, just isn’t the case.In reality, women get just as angry and just as often as men; the primary difference—and the reason behind the misconception—is how the two genders...
by Taylor Bennett | Jan 11, 2019 | Counseling News, Depression, Mental Health, Surviving the Winter
While some of us simply despise cold weather characteristic of winter, others actually suffer significantly from a form of depression called seasonal affective disorder or SAD. This particular type of depression is thought to be caused by a lack of sunlight; symptoms...
