How your future self can help your present well-being
By using science-based techniques for temporal distancing, you can ease your current distress and enhance your mood and motivation, experts say.
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By using science-based techniques for temporal distancing, you can ease your current distress and enhance your mood and motivation, experts say.
New research digs into how the COVID-19 pandemic changed people's personality traits—and not always in the ways you might expect.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that the pandemic changed personality traits, in that people became more conscientious and extraversion dropped.
A new study co-authored by Emily Willroth, in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, sheds light on how our environment — urban or rural — can affect our personality.
Research suggests that while bad feelings can affect your well-being, your perspective on those feelings can play an even bigger role in your overall mental health.