negative emotions

Not just willpower: The mechanisms that bring thoughts back to food in anorexia

Not just willpower: The mechanisms that bring thoughts back to food in anorexia

Adolescents with anorexia do not necessarily suffer from a general lack of cognitive flexibility. Studies indicate focused responses: high-calorie food activates a strong stopping mechanism in them, while emotional distress may redirect thought
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How fulfilling a violated need can open a path to reconciliation

The research of Dr. Ma'an Katzir from Bar-Ilan University examines how psychological needs that are affected by conflict translate into emotions such as anger and fear - and how meeting a need, even from a third party, may reduce negative emotions and increase
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When the cell's energy station goes wrong

Researchers from the Hebrew University have identified a neural network that works against the feeling of reward – and offer a new therapeutic approach to dealing with drug addiction by regulating emotional pain during withdrawal.
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Tiny brain network may hold the key to cocaine withdrawal

Addiction, Cocaine Withdrawal, Hebrew University, Neuroscience, Reward System, Negative Emotions, ICARe, Prof. Jonathan Kopchik, Withdrawal Symptoms, Ventral Pallidum
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Does thinking negatively about high-calorie food really help us?

New research from the University of Haifa reveals that changing our interpretation of high-calorie food may reduce appetite, but at the same time cause general negative feelings – which raises questions about the safety of the method.
Former US President Donald Trump. Increased polarization. Illustration: depositphotos.com

On politics and emotional polarization

What are the sources and patterns of hatred, resentment and bitterness towards political opponents? The study does indeed deal with the USA, which exported this polarization to the whole world during the Trump era