Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks

Re:Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks by ordu on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:55PM (#15271376)

Is it writing did the trick, or any verbalization will do? Maybe all you need is to spend 8 minutes on thinking about task?

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Re:Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks by fernly on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:05PM (#15271437)

I think the point is to externalize the concerns. If you only think about them, they are still "on your mind", whereas if you write them down, they are in a conceptual external storage and you can stop thinking about them.

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Re:Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks by fsiefken on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:33PM (#15271555)

There are cognitive benefits to talking to an imaginary person. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/smarter-living/benefits-o... http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/05/the-perks-of-talking-to...

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Re:Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks by userbinator on Sunday September 17, 2017 @07:01PM (#15272177)

Sometimes it doesn't have to be a person, or even alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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