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How to ward off the 'Sunday scaries' before the new week begins | CNN
Research shows Sunday is our unhappiest day of the week -- so it's no wonder so many of us feel anxious on a Sunday evening. There are a number of reasons why the so-called Sunday scaries happen, and how you spend your weekend can play a big role.
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Is screen time associated with anxiety or depression in young people? Results from a UK birth cohort
We found associations between increased screen time, particularly computer use, and a small increased risk of anxiety and depression. Time spent alone was found to attenu …
Associations between simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use and next-day negative affect among young adults: The role of sex and trait anxiety
Anxiety and sex are salient factors in the link between SAM use relative to single-substance use and daily negative affect. Study findings reinforce the need to account f …
Mental health effects of long work hours, night and weekend work, and short rest periods
Although the prior literature has examined the relationship between work schedule characteristics and worker mental health, establishing the causal effect of work schedul …
Co-ruminating increases stress hormone levels in women
Same-sex friendships are an important source of social support and typically contribute to positive adjustment. However, there can be adjustment trade-offs if the friends …
Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior
Here, we review the research we have conducted on social contagion. We describe the methods we have employed (and the assumptions they have entailed) to examine several d …
Expressive Writing in Psychological Science
The 1997 Psychological Science paper "Writing About Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process" summarized the results of several expressive writing studies. Since th …
How Was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and Other Emotions for US Workers
In this paper we estimate the size of weekend effects for seven emotions and then explore their main determinants for the working population in the United States, using t …
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