How different are our cultural stress coping mechanisms and are they working?
The American Psychological Association, APA reports that according to UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D., the idea that putting problems into words will ease the emotional impact of those problems even across cultures.
Lieberman took this idea a step further, in 2003, by investigating it with the latest brain imaging technology (fMRIs). “There’s this idea that putting bad feelings into words can help wash worries away,” he purported.