Category: Psychology

A scientific review of the brain structures involved with empathy, the ability to put oneself in another person’s position has been carried out by esearchers from the University of Valencia (UV). They conclude that the brain circuits responsible for empathy are in part the same as those involved with violence. Said Luis Moya Albiol, lead…

Psychopathology is the scientific study of mental disorders, including efforts to understand their genetic, biological, psychological, and social causes; effective classification schemes (nosology); course across all stages of development; manifestations; and treatment. Psychopathology is defined as the origin of mental disorders, how they develop, and the symptoms they might produce in a person. The word…

For the first time, scientists have selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging evidence from animal studies that reactivating an emotional memory opens a 6-hour window of opportunity in which a training procedure…

Physically, crying is known to be a symptom of pain or stress. But a Tel Aviv University evolutionary biologist points to empirical evidence showing that tears have emotional benefits and can make interpersonal relationships stronger. New analysis shows that tears still signal physiological distress, but they also function as an evolution-based mechanism to bring people…

A phobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by a recurring, excessive fear of a thing or circumstance. Typically, phobias cause a sudden onset of fear and last for longer than six months. Phobias often start in childhood. A phobia could be anything you were frightened of when you were little, whether it was a real…

There are various models of stress that are continually studied by psychologists around the world. The two most common models are the psychosomatic stress model and the diathesis stress model. Psychosomatic Psychosomatic stress is the type of stress where the connection between mind and body is strengthened. Specifically speaking, you either develop a disease or…