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emotion
Talking to yourself in the third person reduces stress.
A 2017 study found that using one's own name to describe problems lowers activity in brain regions associated with emotional distress.
The research was published by Moser et al. in Scientific Reports (2017) rather than the 2014 Kross et al. study.
You can regulate your own anxiety by stepping outside of your internal perspective.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Kross et al., 2014, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- What the check found
- The claim correctly identifies the research group and the phenomenon, but misattributes the fMRI neural activity finding to the 2014 paper instead of the 2017 follow-up.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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