Emotion-Affective Psychology

When Is It "Manly" to Cry?

When Is It “Manly” to Cry?

Our traditional ideas about how people are "supposed" express emotions are often tied up with gender stereotypes. Since managing emotions is a key part of mental health for anyone of any gender, ...
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/ / Emotion-Affective Psychology
Two Ways to Use Social Media

Two Ways to Use Social Media

In my last post, I talked about how children in neighborhoods with faster internet apparently evaluate their lives more negatively. That study is one of several that has explored a possible link ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Social Media, Social Psychology
In Neighborhoods With Faster Internet, Children Feel Worse About Their Lives

In Neighborhoods With Faster Internet, Children Feel Worse About Their Lives

Who wouldn’t want a faster internet connection? Kids who want to feel good about their lives, maybe. A new analysis of data from 6,300 children carried about by researchers at University of ...
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/ / Children, Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Internet, Media Psychology & Technology, Social Psychology
Sadness and Smoking

Sadness and Smoking

The idea that drugs can be an escape from negative emotions is well known. A recently published study from researchers at Harvard University gives us some more evidence for that idea, but ...
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/ / Addiction, Behavioral Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Sadness, Smoking
What Socializing and Drinking Today Mean for Mood Tomorrow

What Socializing and Drinking Today Mean for Mood Tomorrow

Socializing and consuming alcohol are two activities that often go together. Both also have the potential to alter your mood – so it can be hard to untangle whether you’re feeling the ...
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/ / Alcohol, Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Mood, Relationships
Testing Three Emotional Regulation Techniques

Testing Three Emotional Regulation Techniques

How do we manage difficult emotions and direct them in a positive direction? Psychologists have identified different strategies people use for emotional regulation, some of which seem to work better than others ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Treatment
When Does Comfort Food Really Comfort?

When Does Comfort Food Really Comfort?

Of the different ways we might deal with negative emotions, eating isn’t necessarily the healthiest. Sure, we might want to reach for a candy bar when we’re feeling down, but eating too ...
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/ / Emotion-Affective Psychology, Health Psychology, Nutrition, Positive Psychology
Self-Critical People Have Different Emotion Recognition Skills

Self-Critical People Have Different Emotion Recognition Skills

Some people are much harder on themselves than they would ever be on other people. This tendency toward self-criticism can interfere with people’s ability to enjoy the many benefits of self-compassion. The ...
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/ / Emotion-Affective Psychology, Self-Critical, Self-Efficacy
People Can Detect Envy, but Only in Other People They Know

People Can Detect Envy, but Only in Other People They Know

Ever get the feeling that other people become jealous when something good happens to you? It’s exceptionally hard to know or sure, because most people aren’t open about being envious. As far ...
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/ / Emotion-Affective Psychology, Envy, Relationships, Social Psychology
Are Video Games Linked to Aggression? Researchers Can't Agree

Are Video Games Linked to Aggression? Researchers Can’t Agree

Whether violent video games go hand-in-hand with violence in real life seems like exactly the kind of question we should send over to the psychology researchers. And psychology researchers do have an ...
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/ / Aggression, Anger, Behavioral Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Gaming, Performance Psychology