: In your imagination, you can do anything. Riding a dragon? Piece of cake. Imagination is what fuels creativity and allows us to come up with innovative solutions. New research assessing brain scans shows that our imagination can also help us get rid of our anxieties and fears.
Date Posted: January 16, 2019
Categories: Anxiety, Fear
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The fight-or-flight response has been widely studied and the findings have been replicated across species. Recently, researchers looked at fear responses in parents when threats occur in the presence of their young and found that a new threat ...
Nov 12
Categories: Fear, Parenting
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Technology advancement is one of the greatest gifts in our society today. A modern form of treatment called the Virtual Reality Graded Exposure Therapy (VRGET), was invented and deemed as an effective way to treat certain phobias, anxiety, panic ...
Sep 4
Categories: Adult psychological development, Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Cognitive ...
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Several researches have shown that one effective way to overcome your fears is to face them. Directly facing your fears not only helps one deal with their phobias but also aid people in coping with anxiety disorders.
Aug 28
Categories: Fear, Health Psychology, Phobias
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This article talks about our innate fear of failure and how we can change our perspectives to get over it. By accepting and understanding the purpose of multiple failures we encounter in our lives, we grow to become stronger and more matured ...
Aug 24
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Fear, Life Purpose / Meaning ...
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This article explains how suppressing worries from a health scare might lead to intense fear and emotional distraught.
Aug 16
Categories: Fear, Health Psychology
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The risk of a deadly encounter with a shark is 1 in 3,748,067 while the lifetime risk of dying in a car crash is a staggering 1 in 84 - still most people are more afraid of shark attacks than car crashes. New Zealand psychological scientists have ...
Nov 2
Categories: Fear, Other
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Within hours of the Orlando killings, newscasters and commentators were asking the predictable and familiar question: was the shooter a terrorist radicalized by ISIS ideology or was he struggling with a mental illness?
Jun 20
Categories: Fear, Shame
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Since September 11, terrorism has been an ever present threat gnawing at our collective peace of mind. To contend with a threat, it is better to understand the forces that shape it. That is where science enters in. What can psychology tell us about ...
Jun 14
Categories: Fear
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Phobias and anxieties are best dealt with by facing them. It is not easy, but if done step-by-step most people can learn to deal with anxieties and fears, possibly even overcome them.
Feb 15
Categories: Anxiety, Fear
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When sports fans wear their lucky shirts on game day, they know it is irrational to think clothing can influence a team’s performance. But they do it anyway.
Nov 11
Categories: Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Fear
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We know that the best way to deal with our fears is to face them. But, naturally, this sounds like a terrifying proposition. Thankfully, we can learn healthy ways to approach our fears instead of avoiding and denying them.
Nov 4
Categories: Anxiety, Fear, Health Psychology
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Scare tactics informed by brain science.
Oct 31
Categories: Fear, Other
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With an increasing amount of scientific study into sleep paralysis, researchers are slowly getting closer to unraveling its mystery.
Oct 6
Categories: Fear, Sleep Disorders
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As we watch horror movies, our palms turn sweaty, skin temperature drops, muscles become tense and blood pressure spikes. Why are people drawn to it?
Sep 25
Categories: Fear
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Have you had an abnormal, often unwarranted fear of doing something too fast?
May 11
Categories: Fear
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