Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) encompasses patterns of intrusive, perseverative thoughts such as worry and rumination that recur across diagnostic boundaries. Rather than being confined to a ...

Have you ever found yourself caught in a loop of negative thinking? Those persistent worries, self-critical statements, or frustrating "what ifs" that seem to play on repeat? It's a common human ...

We all have that inner voice. The one that whispers you’re not good enough whenever you try something new. The one that catalogs every embarrassing thing you’ve ever done and replays them on loop at 3 ...

A study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research reveals promising results from a digital health intervention that is based on a decade of research at Harvard Medical School and designed ...

Spontaneous thought is an umbrella term for the phenomena of mind-wandering, daydreaming, and involuntary autobiographical memory 1. These are task-unrelated, stimulus-independent thoughts that ...

We all experience moments when our minds seem to spiral into a loop of negative thoughts, leaving us feeling stuck, drained, ...

Are there times when you just can’t seem to push an unpleasant thought out of your head no matter how hard you try? Perhaps you thought you said something friendly to a person you didn't know very ...

Several years ago, my colleagues and I discovered a unique window into this complicated problem. By eliciting and identifying the internalized negative thought process — which I have termed the “voice ...

A groundbreaking study has confirmed what many people experience but rarely discuss: our mental well-being follows a predictable daily pattern. Analyzing data from over 49,000 adults, researchers ...

Ever had a song you couldn’t get out of your head? That happened to me the other day. Pink Pony Club. It’s everywhere right now; I can’t escape it. And even though I really don’t like that song, it’s ...

A new study suggests the brain may unconsciously filter out negative spoken words, revealing how information is selected ...