People are said to have repetitive negative thinking – a persistent and abstract focus on negative aspects of one’s experience – when they have bothersome pessimistic thoughts that seem to repeat in their minds. They feel as though they have little control over these contemplations. They also tend

Peer pressure doesn’t always drive teenagers to drink. In fact, a non-imbibing adolescent can have a sobering effect on his or her alcohol-drinking friends, a new study suggests. Having a single nondrinking friend cuts down by 38 percent instances of drunkenness among teen drinkers with a majority

Just over a month ago, I knocked up a quick blogpost in response to some of the unpleasant things being said in the immediate aftermath of the tragic suicide of Robin Williams. It was my most popular post to date, with a readership that I’m 99.995% sure I’ll never get again, so many thanks to

Readers’ comments are an important, yet often overlooked, type of user-generated content. And some readers are much more likely to post and read comments than others. Trolling, the act of posting disruptive or inflammatory comments online in order to provoke fellow readers, has been the focus of