Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

A better understanding of psychological trauma is fundamental to clinical psychology.
Following traumatic event (s), a clinically significant number of people develop symptoms …

Intrusive memories of a traumatic event can be distressing and disruptive, and comprise a
core clinical feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Intrusive memories involve …

People with emotional disorders, such as social anxiety disorder (SAD), generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD), and depression, demonstrate a consistent tendency, or bias, to generate …

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive
emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of …

Background The ability to cognitively control emotions is critical for mental health. Previous
studies have identified the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) as a core region in …

Intrusive memories, when persistent and distressing, are theorized to underlie a range of
transdiagnostic psychological symptoms and associated impairment. However, little is …

Children react to severe and acute stress in ways that are very similar to adults. Until people
started to interview children directly, this was not obvious and initially it had been thought …

Background The beliefs we hold about stress play an important role in coping with stressors.
Various theoretical frameworks of stress point to the efficacy of reframing stress-related …

Involuntary episodic memories are memories of events that come to mind spontaneously,
that is, with no preceding retrieval attempts. They are common in daily life and observed in a …