Emotion-Affective Psychology

We are More Lonely than Ever. Find out Why and How to Counter It.

We are More Lonely than Ever. Find out Why and How to Counter It.

We are more connected and more lonely than ever. And this seems to be true across sex, age, race, and income. The COVID-19 pandemic has played a significant role in fostering disconnection ...
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/ / Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, COVID, Depression, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Isolation, Loneliness, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Social Media, Social Psychology, Technology, Well-Being
Night-Owl Teens Might Be Angrier

Night-Owl Teens Might Be Angrier

Psychologists that research people’s "chronotypes," or their propensities to go to bed at different times, have found that early and late risers tend to differ in a variety of ways. In many ...
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/ / Anger, Developmental Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Health Psychology, Sleep, Teens
Having Many Possible Activities Nearby Can Increase Boredom

Having Many Possible Activities Nearby Can Increase Boredom

Boredom is an emotion that can be as much about what you aren’t doing as what you are. We tend to think that the less we do, the more bored we get ...
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/ / Boredom, Cognitive Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology
Five Hours of Sleep a Night Biases People Toward Negative Interpretations

Five Hours of Sleep a Night Biases People Toward Negative Interpretations

We all know that nothing good comes from cutting sleep out of your life. First, there are the cognitive effects. Sleep deprivation influences people’s performance in ways similar to alcohol consumption, which ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Health Psychology, Sleep
The Tweets That Go With a Quarter-Life Crisis

The Tweets That Go With a Quarter-Life Crisis

From getting married to buying homes, millennials are accused of doing everything later. But that’s not true when it comes to having life crises. As the rise of the term "quarter-life" crisis ...
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/ / Anxiety, Developmental Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Social Media, Social Psychology, Teens, Tweets, Young Adults
When You See Your Own Emotions in Other People's Faces

When You See Your Own Emotions in Other People’s Faces

Sometimes our perceptions of others tell us more about ourselves. That can be true in how we interpret other people’s motivations, for example, and a newly published study suggests it can even ...
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/ / Emotion-Affective 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
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
Not Judging Your Own Thoughts as an Element of Happiness

Not Judging Your Own Thoughts as an Element of Happiness

There’s no formula for happiness, but something that apparently helps is not being too judgmental toward your own thoughts and feelings. A recent study from researchers in Spain highlights the role that ...
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/ / Cognitive Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Happiness, Positive Psychology