A top executive who takes the time to explicitly talk about the intensity of an election's impact (a process psychologists call labeling) will reduce the overall distraction happening in the firm.
"I recall one couple where the wife, a writer, felt like she couldn't concentrate on her work unless the kitchen was clean and the laundry folded, while her husband said he worked best when his desk was a disaster and the garage was 'in process,'" psychologist Ryan Howes said.
This process, which psychologists call habituation, dampens appetite independently of physiological signals like rising blood sugar levels or an expanding stomach.
Smiling can also make you happier, through a process that psychologists call the "facial feedback effect".
We tend to think of rapists as bad men who live far away, who couldn't possibly be respectful and caring swim team captains -- a process social psychologists call implicit personality theory.
The draft was further developed in a participatory process involving psychologists, social scientists and health workers from the three countries concerned.
It also refers people to the "Channel programme", a de-radicalisation process that uses psychologists, social workers and religious experts to help counsel thousands of people considered vulnerable to extremist ideas.
To say that memory is a constructive process, and that psychologists have turned their research efforts to the study of suggestibility, misinformation, and distortion is not to focus unrealistically on cases where memory goes wrong, or to say that accuracy in memory has suddenly been shown by science to be impossible or unlikely.
It is a crucial part of the healing process, said Mei Ting, a psychologist working with refugees in Mianyang.
"Changing someone's identity is a last resort, because it's such a complicated, cumbersome process," said Karen Martin, a psychologist who is the Retreat's clinical director.
Research evidence shows that people become significantly less motivated because they are concentrating on the outcome rather than the process, says Oliver James, the psychologist and author of Affluenza, which warns of the mental damage caused by over-consumption.
