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1رسالة جامعية
المؤلفون: Orón-Semper, J.V. (José Víctor)
الملخص: Neuropsychology shows us that adolescent maturation involves three areas: ejective functions, personal identity, and socialization and this maturation is not reached without emotion regulation. If we look at what this emotion regulation is made up of, psychology will tell us motivation, stress, resilience, emotional cognition, self-control, and habits are fields in which emotion regulation is useful. All of them are looking at the same thing but from different points of view. We can consider forming good habits as the outcome of reached emotional regulation by continued effort of self-control. Currently, neuroscience has seen habit like motor routine and for that reason links habits with corticostriatal pathways, but this is a narrow view of habit. In this opinion article we propose others cerebral process that fit better with a more general conception of the habit. This is developed during adolescence through emotion regulation, so education could be crucial to reach healthy or unhealthy habit.
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2رسالة جامعية
المؤلفون: Bremner, Ryan Hanlon
Committee Members: Kross, Ethan F.; Dal Cin, Sonya; Ybarra, Oscar; Schwarz, Norbert W.
الملخص: It is difficult to describe what takes place when we reflect on our thoughts, feelings, or actions without resorting to metaphor. “Detachment,” “getting outside of ourselves,” “taking a step back”—all of these expressions use the metaphor of distance to describe what happens when we relate to mental states in a way that differs from our initial experience of them. This dissertation aims to demonstrate that gaining psychological distance from ourselves and our thoughts can improve decision-making, strengthen emotion regulation, and, ultimately, increase well-being. Chapter 2 demonstrates that self-distancing can reduce biased thought: Writing while using second- or third-person pronouns (e.g., “you,” “he,” or “she”) to refer to the self reduces the correspondence bias. Chapter 3 demonstrates that this same type of self-distanced writing can improve well-established cognitive behavioral therapy homework interventions, leading to increased life satisfaction. Chapter 4 demonstrates that self-distanced writing can increase people’s assessments of their ability to cope with difficult situations. This program of research begins to demonstrate the depth and power of gaining psychological distance from the self.
