Washington, Nov. 26 (ANI): A new study has discovered that if people frequently expose themselves to bad events then there will come a point when the same event will fail to affect them at all.
Psychology shows that it doesn't take much to put you in a bad mood, but a new research by Dr. Moshe Shay Ben-Haim, and his team at Tel Aviv University's School of Psychological Sciences now reveals that repeated exposure to a negative event neutralizes its effect on your mood and your thinking.
Dr. Ben-Haim said that a bad mood is known to slow cognition and the study shows that, counterintuitively, you can avoid getting into a bad mood in the first place by dwelling on a negative event.
For instance, if you look at the newspaper before you go to work and see a headline about a bombing or tragedy of some kind, it's better to read the article all the way through and repeatedly expose yourself to the negative information as you will be freer to go on with your day in a better mood and without any negative effects, Ben-Haim added.
The study is published in Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. (ANI)
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