The phenomenon of self-positivity bias refers to the common tendency for individuals perceive themselves in a more positive light than is objectively warranted. current study seeks investigate impact enhanced on depressive mood resulting from negative life events. included two experiments, resistance experiment (exp. 1) and an improvement 2), with 40 randomly selected college students assigned ...

Physiological systems need to be flexible in order adapt a changing environment. Negative events, however, induce flexibility reductions that seem necessary for coping purposes. To date, studies have measured linear variability and entropy heart output, but none examined the scaling properties of cardiac system when individuals deal with stressful everyday events. This study was aimed at testin...

Previous studies have shown that exposure to adverse life events is positively associated with a tendency towards antisocial behavior. However, results concerning relationships between behaviour and internal factors, such as personality traits, are not so consistent. The present study aimed examine the effects of negative Dark Tetrad traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism) on...

This experiment examined six short texts for their effectiveness in inducing positive or negative mood in an online environment. Compared to two control groups, the texts successfully changed mood in the desired direction for mood measured on a single-item self-report scale. In accordance with previous research, negative mood was induced more effectively than positive mood. In addition to the s...

BACKGROUND There are many studies on life events in depression and also several studies examining brain structural changes in the hippocampus of depressed patients. However, only few studies have focused on the association of life events and hippocampal volume in depression. The hypothesis of a significant negative association between life events and hippocampal volumes in first episode depress...

Research has indicated that schizophrenia patients report similar amounts of experienced emotion in response to emotional material compared with nonpatients. However, less is known about how schizophrenia patients describe and make sense of their emotional life events. We adopted a narrative approach to investigate schizophrenia patients' renderings of their emotional life experiences. In Study...