Stress doesn’t need an outlet. A persistent myth exposed There is no 'outlet' for negative emotions (stress). Instead, it will just pass if the source of frustration stops. Revenge may help. But it may be wiser to put it into perspective, meditate on it, seek distraction, or wait until your brain stops mulling it over. Jos Brosschot • February 12, 2024
There is No Scientific News II. The hunt for the newest of the newest research threatens the accumulation of knowledge The desperate hunt for the latest and newest scientific findings, by journalists as well as scientists, frustrates the accumulation of knowledge. Preprints and Google Scholar only make it worse. This is my second call for slow science… Jos Brosschot • December 04, 2023
Stress? It's safety, silly! A new view of stress as a default response throws current theory upside down. Not something present (a stressor) triggers a stress response, but something missing (information on safety) unleashes it, keeping it disinhibited as long as safety is missing or unclear. Jos Brosschot • April 25, 2022
Stress science is looking in the wrong place with the wrong theory Stress responses, typically popularized as outdated reactions to stressors such as cave bears, are far too brief and infrequent to make us sick. Yet, science still focuses on these responses, failing to explain the chronic high stress levels that can influence health and cause disease. Jos Brosschot • April 14, 2022
There is No Scientific News. The failure to determine what we already know due to our poor literature searching practice Faced with an anarchistic database of four million psychological articles, psychological researchers’ searching techniques seem woefully inadequate to find the state of the art. It is our academical duty to do far better. Literature searching is a difficult and essential skill of ‘slow science’. Jos Brosschot • May 03, 2021