Know you can change your feelings. Choosing to use cognitive appraisal may sound trivial, but it isn’t. Many people believe their emotions are “really powerful, animalistic forces” that cannot be ...

A compelling body of literature suggests that negative appraisal may be associated with adverse reactions to traumatic stress. However, very few studies have examined how appraisal influences ...

A standard intervention for social anxiety disorder (SAD), is cognitive-behavioral group therapy (CBGT). Its effectiveness is linked to learning how to reappraise unhelpful responses and maladaptive ...

Background About 2 out of 3 competitive runners sustain at least one health problem every season; most of these problems are non-traumatic injuries with gradual onset. The main known risk indicator ...

An emotion regulation strategy known as cognitive reappraisal helped reduce the typically heightened and habitual attention to drug-related cues and contexts in cocaine-addicted individuals, a study ...

“There is nothing as practical as a good theory” was Kurt Lewin’s (1943) way of asserting the value of theory in guiding research that addresses broad social problems. But psychological theory also ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 9 weeks, 36% of patients met the criteria for PTSD, complex PTSD, depression or anxiety. A youth’s ...

The cognitive appraisal theory explains how people interpret events and why those interpretations trigger powerful emotions.