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Study: Feel Bad to Feel Great (Relief Boosts Positive Emotions)

Simon Moesgaard — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:35:00 +0000

Relief is one of the most common emotions, and it is one of our few basic emotions. Most of our emotions have clear emotional valences. For example, happiness is considered to have a positive emotional valence; anger is considered to have a negative valence; and arousal is considered to have a neutral valence. However, the emotional valences that […]

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Self-Harm as a Means of Coping With Emotional Distress

Simon Moesgaard — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0000

The number (prevalence) of self-harmers is relatively high in the general population. Self-harm is involved in as much as 225 out of 100.000 emergencies in the U.S., according to the emergency departments (Puskar et al., 2006). Puskar and colleagues (2006) provide the following statements: If we should account for all cutters, the number of cutters would be greater, but since cutting behavior is a […]

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