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Tag Archives: Emotions
How Weight Lifting Can Help Heal Trauma
Everyone knows that weight lifting increases physical strength. But, for some, it can give psychological power, too.
6 Ways to Help Your Child Deal With Anger
Anger has a bad reputation, but it is a basic human emotion like any other. Here’s how to help children cope.
Grief Shame: Why We Judge Each Other’s Grief
A new classification in psychology has set off a debate over what should be done about “prolonged” grief.
The Joy Workout
Six research-backed moves to improve your mood
A ‘Life-Affirming’ Remedy for Climate Despair
Wynn Bruce’s death can teach us that climate anxiety and despair can be channeled into constructive action.
A Look at the Textbooks Rejected by the Florida Department of Education
The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why.
The Secrets of Lasting Friendships
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar provides a framework.
The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame
Cathy O’Neil’s “The Shame Machine” is the most recent book to address an emotion that can be exhilarating or terrifying, depending on where you sit.
What Makes a Times Article Go Viral?
Facebook posts, shares, emails and page views: We may already know how an article spreads online, but we’re still learning why it lights up the internet.
Jealousy Doesn’t Have to Ruin a Friendship
Everyone feels left out sometimes. It’s how you handle it that matters.
What Does Dreaming About an Ex Mean?
And what the dreams can teach us about our own yearnings, then and now.
The Best Cure for Languishing: Behavioral Activation
As with just about everything related to Covid, we’re sick of languishing, too.
Sigal Barsade, 56, Dies; Argued That It’s OK to Show Emotions at Work
Her pioneering research showed that feelings have a place in the office, and that good leaders should learn to embrace that fact.
Can MDMA Save a Marriage?
For some couples on the brink of divorce, taking the illegal psychedelic drug was a last resort — but it ended up being the only thing that worked.
The Eat Well Challenge: A Guide to Reshape Your Eating Habits Without a Diet
Reshape your eating habits this year, no dieting needed.
How to Mindfully Manage Your Food Cravings
For the Eat Well Challenge, mindfulness techniques like “urge surfing” can help curb overeating without banning favorite foods.
What Role Do Emotions Play in the Way Our Brains Work?
In “Emotional,” Leonard Mlodinow examines the effect of feelings on our thought processes and mental lives.
How Burnout Affects Men
The intense public discussion of burnout during the pandemic has given too little attention to how men experience this problem.
Why Stress May Be Your Heart’s Worst Enemy
Psychological stress activates the fear center in the brain, setting into motion a cascade of reactions that can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
How to Improve Your Mental Health in 2022
Well’s most popular stories of the year offered tools to stay happy and healthy.
How Can You Learn to Be More Resilient?
Pandemic life doesn’t have to be just about survival. You can become stronger and ready for the next challenge.
Millionaire Space Tourism Doesn’t Come With an Awe Guarantee
Space tourism is one of those ostensibly awesome experiences that often feel anticlimactic because they promise the sublime.
A Spirit of Gratitude Is Healthy for Society
On Thanksgiving, consider the multiple benefits of giving thanks.
I Have to Believe John Sarno’s Book Cured My Chronic Pain
A science writer investigates the 30-year-old claims of an iconoclastic doctor who said chronic pain was mostly mental.
Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals. Discuss.
New research raises as many question as it answers.
How Depression and Anxiety Affect Your Physical Health
Mind and body form a two-way street.
How to Spot a Love Addict
Experts question whether we can describe a toxic relationship the way we talk about gambling or alcohol. But some have found that framework to be a helpful step in the road to freedom.
Who Gets Sick in Space? Inspiration4 May Offer More Clues.
Commercial spaceflight brings a more diverse cross section of humanity beyond Earth, helping medical researchers collect data.
Twenty years after Sept. 11, a…
Twenty years after Sept. 11, a look at what we hold on to and what we choose to let go.
How the Brain Shapes Reality and Imagination
The categories we use to describe our thinking are messed up.
How to Support Teenagers as They Head Back to School
Adolescents are readying for the next step in a seemingly endless set of challenges. Here’s how to help them regulate their emotions.
Back To School: 4 Ways Parents Can Calm Their Fears
A psychiatrist offers these tools to her patients who worry that Delta will disrupt the school year.
Why Fear and Loathing Can Be Good for Your Workout
Stress isn’t usually a good thing for mental health. But during exercise it can be.
What We Are Not Teaching Boys About Being Human
It turns out that there is a bizarre absence of fully realized human beings in my sons’ fictional worlds.
How to Calm Your Climate Anxiety
Between wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes, we’re all feeling nervous about the future. But stewing or ignoring the problem won’t ease your burden.
How to Channel Your Inner Olympic Coach
Here are a few tips to help motivate those around you to persevere and succeed.
Post-Covid Happiness Comes in Groups
We find our greatest bliss in moments of “collective effervescence.”
Edward Diener, Psychologist Known as Dr. Happiness, Dies at 74
Since the 1980s, he was recognized as a leader in measuring what he called “subjective well-being.” And, yes, he was very happy.
The Great Unmasking
After Covid, a better life is possible.
It Might Be Time to Break Up Your Pandemic Pod
Yes, you really need to start seeing other people.
Wellness Challenge: A Self Check-in for Mental Health
How to Conquer Feelings of Guilt During the Pandemic
Many have felt unwarranted remorse over things they can’t control. Here’s how to stop the spiral.
A Year of ‘Languishing’ and ‘Fallow Space’
“Languishing definitely describes the lack of interest I feel just now,” one reader writes. Another describes a fallow period of rest preparing for what comes next.
Are There More Tulips Than Usual This Year?
After a year of languishing, New York City is flourishing.
Using Radical Acceptance to Minimize Suffering
Five ways to become more accepting of pain.
Feeling Blah During the Pandemic? It’s Called Languishing
It’s the neglected middle child of mental health, and can dull your motivation and focus. It may be the dominant emotion of 2021.
The Main Reason for Your Pandemic Boredom
It comes down to lack of control.
Why We Romanticize the Past
Ah, the good old days. Were they really that good?
The Family Dog Is in Sync With Your Kids
Dogs orient and move in synchrony with family members, which may have implications for the emotional development of people and pets.