Since Freud, clinicians have understood that disturbing memories contribute to
psychopathology and that new emotional experiences contribute to therapeutic change. Yet …

Social cognitive neuroscience examines social phenomena and processes using cognitive
neuroscience research tools such as neuroimaging and neuropsychology. This review …

Long-standing social problems such as poor achievement, personal and intergroup conflict,
bad health, and unhappiness can seem like permanent features of the social landscape. We …

Expressing painful emotions is hard--yet it can actually improve our mental and physical
health. This lucid, compassionate book has introduced tens of thousands of readers to …

For the past decade, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that when
individuals write about emotional experiences, significant physical and mental health …

Fiction literature has largely been ignored by psychology researchers because its only
function seems to be entertainment, with no connection to empirical validity. We argue that …

Writing about important personal experiences in an emotional way for as little as 15 minutes
over the course of three days brings about improvements in mental and physical health. This …

Disclosing information, thoughts, and feelings about personal and meaningful topics
(experimental disclosure) is purported to have various health and psychological …

A research synthesis was conducted to examine the relationship between a written
emotional expression task and subsequent health. This writing task was found to lead to …

Background Over approximately the last fifteen years, early psychological interventions,
such as psychological'debriefing', have been increasingly used following psychological …