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Which social skills go out the window when folks become groggy? What stressors make for lousy sleep... More
Sleep and Social Stress: A Two-Way Street
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Brain imaging research suggests that our ability to do “cold” math calculations may be connected with our ability to regulate “hot” emotions... More
Mental Flexibility May Buffer Against Emotional Stress
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Psychological scientists have uncovered an alarming link between chronic stress and cellular aging. The length of our telomeres, the protective caps at the tips of our chromosomes, may foretell health risks... More
The Long and the Short of It
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Psychological research confirms that smartphones are indeed creating a new kind of stress for people at home, at work, and in social settings... More
The Psychological Toll of the Smartphone
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Teaching teens that social and personality traits can change helps them cope with social challenges such as bullying, which can help mitigate stress and improve academic performance... More
For Teens, Learning That Personalities Change Buffers Against Stress
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Providing help to friends, acquaintances, and even strangers can mitigate the impact of daily stressors on our emotions and our... More
Helping Others Dampens the Effects of Everyday Stress
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Men and women both provide strong support to their partners, but women tend to do a better job of being supportive under stressful situations... More
Stress Affects How Men and Women Provide Support to Partners
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You probably don’t need statistics to appreciate the pervasive role of stress in American life, but the numbers are there... More
The Roots of Stress
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Researchers find that the impact of stress on decision-making, including risk aversion and antisocial behavior, increases over the course of the first hour after a stressful event. ... More
How Stress Drains Decision-Making Over Time
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Scientists find that simply encouraging people to reframe the signs of stress before public speaking was a surprisingly effective way of handling stage fright... More
Reframing Stress: Stage Fright Can Be Your Friend
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When people under stress are making a difficult decision, they may pay more attention to the upsides of the alternatives they’re considering and less to the downsides, studies show... More
Under Stress, We Ignore the Negative Possibilities
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Natural resilience may not be as common as once thought -- data suggests that many people confronted with a major life-altering event can struggle considerably and for longer periods of time... More
Natural Resilience to Major Life Stressors Not So Common
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Burnout and the Brain
Burnout is not just a state of mind. Psychological research shows it to be a condition that leads to distinctive changes in the anatomy and functioning of the brain… More
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