Adolescence is a time of heightened emotion. Stress, excitement, anxiety, frustration, and joy flow through classrooms every day. But how do these emotions affect how students learn and connect with ...

Nietzsche’s famous quote, “What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger,” holds less often than, “What we avoid makes us weaker.” Emotion regulation makes us stronger. Put simply, emotion regulation is ...

It is well-established that general anxiety associates with the lower use of adaptive emotion regulation and the higher use of maladaptive emotion regulation. However, no study has previously ...

Our nervous systems are continuously scanning for cues of safety. Brief repeated practices can shift us from states of ...

In sum, converging evidence suggest that affective and anxiety disorders are associated with a range of ER difficulties 9,19,20,33. However, as outlined above, studies so far do not allow for a ...

The technique, called affect labeling, can reduce the intensity of strong emotions.

A new study is among the first of its kind to identify brain regions unique to emotion regulation in the human brain, providing novel therapeutic approaches. A recent study led by Dartmouth College ...

Practise your reading skills and learn about emotion regulation ...

Depressed individuals who reflexively attempt to dampen their initial emotional responses to reminders of their negative memories have a low tolerance for distressing emotional stimuli in general and ...

Ever want to scream during a particularly bad day, but then manage not to? Thank the human brain and how it regulates emotions, which can be critical for navigating everyday life. As we perceive ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...

Daily Habits That Build Emotional Resilience Mental fitness isn’t about being positive all the time or never feeling stressed ...