Negative emotions: how to survive your own thoughts?
Behind every emotion always hides one or more often exaggerated and false thoughts of our perception of reality. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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How Breathing Shapes Our Brain
Breathing can influence our brain to impact emotions, thoughts, and how we see the outside world. Explanations. THE ESSENTIAL We ...
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What are the unsuspected virtues of swear words?
Swearing has physiological, cognitive, emotional and interactional effects, according to a British study. THE ESSENTIAL Repeated swearing increases risk taking. ...
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Dying of fear: “A great scare can cause a heart attack or a stroke”
Strong emotions can have consequences on our body and our heart. But is it possible to die of fear? Answer ...
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Self-confidence: how to get rid of what blocks us?
Fear, sadness, jealousy... Sometimes certain emotions overwhelm us and prevent us from moving forward. Freeing yourself from what blocks us ...
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Forcing ourselves to smile would make us happier
According to a new study on the link between facial expressions and emotions, smiling mechanically increases our feelings of happiness. ...
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Mood swings: how to work on self-control?
Are you having difficulty managing your emotions? Strategies exist to avoid being drawn into impulsive behavior. Psychiatrist Dr Claire Lewandoswki ...
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People with low ecological sensitivity are less empathetic and emotional than others
People who react less emotionally to images of environmental damage are also less emotional and empathetic in general, according to ...
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Emotional food compulsions: the fault of parental education?
A Belgian study observed the influence of parents on the relationship to food in adolescents. Certain eating behaviors could favor ...
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Meditation: the importance of a good practice
Despite what one might think, meditation can have serious adverse effects on some practitioners, especially those who are emotionally vulnerable. ...
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Greater empathy among teens helps fight cyberbullying
American scientists have explored the link, in young people, between cyberbullying and empathy, this ability to feel the emotions of ...
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Our laughter changes according to our interlocutor!
When we laugh with our friends, our laughter is more natural and authentic than in the company of our partner. ...
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Mothers who can recognize positive emotions are more sensitive parents
A new mother's ability to read positive emotions in other people's faces and facial expressions predicts how sensitive and receptive ...
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Love at first sight has a name
Holidays are the favorite terrain of love at first sight. It can be a real disease that even has a ...
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Hearing insults is like receiving “mini slaps”!
Negative comments and name-calling cause emotional damage to the brain. THE ESSENTIAL Words have an important role to play in ...
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Negative emotions make children eat junk food
Negative emotions lead children to eat junk food, which is unhealthy. THE ESSENTIAL Morning and evening are the two vulnerable ...
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When emotion drives us to eat
© iStockIt's a law of nature (or almost): when you're not well, you eat. But the most unfortunate part of ...
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When physical manifestations of sadness ward off depression
Sad people who force themselves not to cry, refuse to acknowledge that they are heartbroken, or have no appetite are ...
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Emotional stability, key to professional success
To have a successful start to your professional career, it is better not to be affected by your emotions. THE ...
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Why is fear contagious?
It is indeed possible to transmit your fears, according to American scientists. When some are frightened, they would be more ...
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Why are we easily manipulated?
Our brain obeys its own logic and interprets all information according to our inner world.Whether it's influencers, fashion or even ...
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How Negative Emotions Impact Breathing
American scientists have discovered that a neural circuit coordinates our breathing when it is associated with negative emotions such as ...
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How to help your child stop sucking his thumb?
Letting go of the thumb is a big step that requires support and guidance.The need to suck is a survival ...
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Women, no more emotional than men
Women are not more emotional than men, which calls into question the exclusion of women from many clinical trials because ...
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The different subtleties of the smile
There are several types of smiles that convey different emotions and can lead to opposite reactions in others. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Why Strong Emotions Make Us Do Anything
A big surge of anxiety or intense fear can alter the brain's decision-making circuits. THE ESSENTIAL If we consider the ...
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Brain: how emotions affect our memory
In front of a film or a series, the scenes that leave the most traces in the memories are those ...
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Chronic pain: how it affects emotions
Long-term suffering would disrupt the chemical functioning of a part of the brain involved in mood. THE ESSENTIAL This phenomenon ...
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Music gets rid of bad smells better
Listening to music twice a day for three weeks would reduce the negative emotions aroused by bad smells. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Psychology: why Thomas Pesquet risks returning transformed from his trip to space
Astronauts who stay in space for a long time feel less and less positive emotions. THE ESSENTIAL Space travel has ...
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