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Pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat, while embracing your darker moods can actually make you feel better in the long run, according to new UC Berkeley research.
"We found that people who habitually accept their negative emotions experience fewer negative emotions, which adds up to better psychological health," said study senior author Iris Mauss, an associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley.
At this point, researchers can only speculate on why accepting your joyless emotions can defuse them, like dark clouds passing swiftly in front of the sun and out of sight.
"Maybe if you have an accepting attitude toward negative emotions, you're not giving them as much attention," Mauss said. "And perhaps, if you're constantly judging your emotions, the negativity can pile up."
Source: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/10/emotionalacceptance/
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:59AM (3 children)
I dont see why the misc BS of the day psychologists come up with for a graduation project should be posted here.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @12:01PM (2 children)
You should feel bad about being a deplorable idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @12:27PM (1 child)
I guess it was interesting to see as many examples as possible of the usual BS for awhile: "null hypothesis is false therefore my theory is true (except I used the word 'suggests' so it is ok)". I am just too familiar with it now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @02:48PM
Yeah, I know what you mean. It seems like many of these studies are just students who found some data from some previously-conducted study or surveyed a bunch of fellow students around campus, played around with it in Python/R/SAS/whatever else for a while, found a correlation of some sort, and passed it off as causation with a quick disclaimer buried somewhere that says, "Oh, by the way, this is just a correlation...More research is needed."
It's not necessarily a bad thing for the students--it's probably actually a really good exercise, even, and it will probably help them a lot in their future work. But I do agree that this sort of thing doesn't need to be "news."
(Also, the fact that it's from UC Berkeley doesn't fill me with confidence that the research has been rigorously examined, given the school's social reputation of late, especially since the study has to do with "feelings.")
Also, relevant xkcd that we've all probably seen a thousand times and don't even need to click to know what it is... https://www.xkcd.com/552/ [xkcd.com]