An extensive literature on childhood adversity and neurodevelopment has emerged over the
past decade. We evaluate two conceptual models of adversity and neurodevelopment—the …

Emotions are powerful determinants of behaviour, thought and experience, and they may be
regulated in various ways. Neuroimaging studies have implicated several brain regions in …

Emotions are centered in subjective experiences that people represent, in part, with
hundreds, if not thousands, of semantic terms. Claims about the distribution of reported …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

What is compassion? And how did it evolve? In this review, we integrate 3 evolutionary
arguments that converge on the hypothesis that compassion evolved as a distinct affective …

In the 40 years since Aaron Beck first proposed his cognitive model of depression, the
elements of this model—biased attention, biased processing, biased thoughts and …

The recently discovered default mode network (DMN) is a group of areas in the human brain
characterized, collectively, by functions of a self-referential nature. In normal individuals …

BACKGROUND: Childhood maltreatment represents a strong risk factor for the development
of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in later life. In the present study, we …

Putting feelings into words, or “affect labeling,” can attenuate our emotional experiences.
However, unlike explicit emotion regulation techniques, affect labeling may not even feel like …

To what extent do we know our own minds when making decisions? Variants of this
question have preoccupied researchers in a wide range of domains, from mainstream …