Mothers who are often angry or irritated and those who suppress their emotional expressions can worsen the severity of their children’s asthma symptoms, especially when the children are younger. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine studied 223 mothers for a year,investigating how their stress levels, coping styles. and parenting styles were […]
Researchers from Utrecht University who studied the effect of negative emotions on pain perception in women with and without fibromyalgia found that anger and sadness amplified pain equally in both groups. Full findings are now online and will publish in the October print issue of Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College […]
Anger is a negative emotion. But, like being happy or excited, feeling angry makes people want to seek rewards, according to a new study of emotion and visual attention. The researchers found that people who are angry pay more attention to rewards than to threats – the opposite of people feeling other negative emotions like […]
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