PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Thought Suppression, Positive Psychology, Cognitive Load
14 Apr 2013
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Title: sharing one s story: on the bene ts of writing or talking about. One approach to positive psychology is to document the psychological factors that promote physical and mental health. Our interest in coping with emotional upheavals is rooted in people s apparent need to talk with others after a distressing event. It has long been argued that self-disclosure of upsetting experiences serves as a basic human motive. This chapter will explore how and why constructing stories about important personal events is so bene cial. 3 recurring and overlapping processes are explored: those associated with emotional inhibition, cognitive processes, and linguistic processes that occur within the rubric of social dynamics. Not talking about important emotional events engages powerful, negative change sin each of these processes. By constructing stories through writing or talking, these dynamics can be reversed. Hypothesis that giving people the opportunity to disinhibit or disclose their emotions would improve health.
