A Penn psychologist offers 4 recommendations to mitigate the anxiety that comes with holiday flights and other ...

Cognitive reframing is a powerful mental technique that can transform the way you perceive and respond to situations ...

We all must cope with change in our lives. We know it will come. Some change can be overwhelming, even frightening. It can also be abrupt, not planned or expected, so you can’t prepare. Change can add ...

The Yerkes-Dodson law is a psychological principle that describes the relationship between arousal (not that kind of arousal) and performance. Too much stress, and performance declines. But up to a ...

In previous posts, I’ve written about the cognitive side of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The main technique involves identifying negative automatic thoughts and reframing those thoughts into ...

Stress, challenges and failure are a part of life, but how we emotionally respond to them can shape our future. As Shakespeare put it, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” — ...

Cognitive reappraisal is a strategy for everyday living in which a person deliberately aims to modify their emotional response to experience by changing their thoughts. It involves evaluating an ...