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Feb 27, 2018 · MORE: Why Having Lots Of Feelings Is Good For Your Health. Yet simply teaching people that emotions are not under conscious control would help them tremendously. Basic biology and anatomy explain ...
- Self-Compassion
People often think that they are motivated by...
- Self-Compassion
Sep 15, 2024 · One key theory links emotions and consciousness to body homeostasis, regulated by primitive brain regions. A competing theory views the prefrontal cortex as essential to the conscious feeling of ...
Emotion regulation is the ability to exert control over one’s own emotional state. It may involve behaviors such as rethinking a challenging situation to reduce anger or anxiety, hiding visible ...
- Two broad categories of emotion regulation are reappraisal—changing how one thinks about something that prompted an emotion in order to change one’...
- Practicing habits such as mindful acceptance of emotions, shifting attention away from the source of negative emotions, or reframing emotional situ...
- While emotions may never be completely subject to conscious control, it likely depends on which aspect of emotional experience one tries to control...
- Parents can model effective strategies for coping with emotions and avoid “acting out” themselves. They can also be an “emotion coach,” talking wit...
- From the Greek for “no words for feelings,” alexithymia is a term for difficulty with cognitively processing one’s own emotions, including paying a...
- Anger, resentment and disappointment are universally experienced states; people can work to control and mitigate these feelings, but should not nee...
- There are obvious hazards of not properly moderating emotions like anger, anxiety, or fear : harm to relationships from overreaction, unnecessary s...
- A variety of factors might impede emotion regulation, including beliefs about negative emotions (that they are bad, or that we’re not able to contr...
- Thinking Hard Is Bad; Thinking Intuitively Is Good
- Unconscious Thinking Is Bad; Thinking Consciously Is Better
- Situational Factors
- Psychological Factors: Hot and Cold Thinking
- Our Brains Are Controlling Us
- Parting Comment
There are many areas of psychology – including judgement and decision making, and reasoning – that have shown that when it comes to complex decisions that require us to pay attention to a lot of information, or pay attention to particular types of information that might be difficult to describe, we are better off basing our decisions on our gut (i....
When it comes to decision making, there are three types of evidence that tantalise psychologists, neuroscientists and others into treating the unconscious as the dominant system, which all leads us in the wrong direction. The first is that very speedy decisions often lead to error. Decision-making researchers sometimes call these types of decisions...
Does familiarity breed contempt? Being very familiar with a situation means that we can identify critical details that can be used to evaluate a situation, and this can also remind us of past similar situations that we've been in before. As a result, if we can assess without much evaluation the details of a situation in order to base our decisions,...
The link between speedy decisions and emotions has often been made. There is no clear evidence to suggest outright that basing decisions on emotional states is conclusively bad, or conclusively good, any more than saying making speedy decisions in general is good or bad. Again, there is no real agreement about the key underlying basis for speedy de...
The work of Benjamin Libet (1985) has had one of the most significant impacts on the debate on free will and control. His work revealed that instead of our intentions causing our actions, our non-conscious brain processes initiate the actions before we even intended to act. Put simply, or brains are making the choices for us, and only later do we c...
We may not want to hear this, because we are always looking for short cuts. But the message from a substantial body of research is that conscious processing has the primary role in supporting our decision making and the actions we plan on taking when we want to achieve a goal. The most effective way of making choices is to think through the consequ...
- Hilary Jacobs Hendel LCSW
- You sit at work yearning for a drink.
- You avoid conflicts with your partner.
- You laugh or smile when you or someone else talks about sad things.
- You change the subject when uncomfortable during a conversation.
May 3, 2022 · Summary. Emotional self-regulation refers to a person’s ability to manage their emotions and impulses. It is an important part of overall mental and physical well-being. Emotional self ...
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Jan 20, 2022 · They warned against wasting energy on what is outside your control. You can lessen emotional pain, they argued, if you accept that the “worst” may happen and focus only on what you can do to ...
