The present research examines whether cognitive load can modulate the processing of negative emotional stimuli, even after negative stimuli have already activated emotional centers of the brain. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, participants viewed neutral and negative stimuli that were followed by an attention-demanding arithmetic task. As expected, exposure to negative ...

conclusions metacognitive regulation strategies are more considerable prediction than emotional regulation strategies in sd group than in ad group. individuals with ad use alcohol as a means of both cognitive and emotional regulation strategy. patients and methods according to dsm-iv tr criteria, 45 patients with alcohol dependence (ad), 44 patients with substance dependence (sd), and 43 volunt...

Social media has played a significant role in people’s lives and can be helpful to them variety of ways. However, if misused, social also problematic. impacts how kids establish their identities because it gives access platform that may cause feel anxious, insecure, depressed since they work so hard maintain online reputations. Allowing young people use lead issues such as cyberbullying, sextin...

We investigate the differential effects of the quality and quantity of maternal time on children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development. We measure the quantity of time as the total amount of maternal time devoted to childcare and quality as the fraction of this time devoted to purposeful teaching-learning routines. We address the potential endogeneity issues by using an instrumental varia...

The authors present a cognitive-developmental theory of emotional awareness that creates a bridge between normal and abnormal emotional states. Their primary thesis is that emotional awareness is a type of cognitive processing which undergoes five levels of structural transformation along a cognitive-developmental sequence derived from an integration of the theories of Piaget and Werner. The fi...

Sex differences in emotional responding have been repeatedly postulated but less consistently shown in empirical studies. Because emotional reactions are modulated by cognitive appraisal, sex differences in emotional responding might depend on differences in emotion regulation. In this study, we investigated sex differences in emotional reactivity and emotion regulation using a delayed cognitiv...