Psychological Regression
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Regression Toward the Mean
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2020
Regression toward the mean (“RTM”) is a phenomenon in which extremely high or low values—for example, and individual’s blood pressure at a particular moment—appear closer to a group’s average upon remeasuring. Although this statistical peculiarity is the result of random error and chance, it has been problematic across various medical, scientific, financial and psychological applications. In particular, RTM, if not taken into account, can interfere when researchers try to extrapolate results...
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Perspectives on Experimental Psychology
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Gary Lewandowski, Dave Strohmetz, and Natalie Ciarocco—Monmouth University As the Department Chair of Psychology at Monmouth University, I teach primarily upper level undergraduate students who are interested in Experimental Methods. These classes don’t have the same inherent appeal to students. This JoVE Psychology collection will help students vicariously watch the experiments being performed from start to finish, allowing them to gain exposure to over a dozen topics...
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Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University As an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, I teach Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. This large class primarily consists of freshman and sophomores majoring in related fields, like Psychology, Neuroscience, or Cognitive Science. One of the challenges I face in the classroom is teaching students to appreciate how data are obtained in the process of performing experiments.
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The Trier Social Stress Test Protocol for Inducing Psychological Stress
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2011
This article describes a protocol for inducing psychological stress in participants, which enables researchers to measure psychological, physiological and neuroendocrine responses to stress within single participants or between groups.
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Perspectives on Social Psychology
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2023
Social Psychology is a complex field—one that investigates how social contexts affect people’s actions, thoughts, and attitudes. It brings the scientific method into our everyday lives by addressing questions relevant to interactions amongst individuals near and far or even over the internet. For example, the video about ostracism details an approach to induce feelings of exclusion without direct face-to-face contact. These videos are meant to show the wide reactionary nature of human beings,...
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Stress, interpersonal conflict, and overwhelming demands can make psychological regression more likely when they interfere with a person’s access to more mature coping strategies. The response may reflect difficulty managing anxiety in the moment rather than a stable change in development. Examining what preceded the behavior helps clarify which pressures or conflicts may be contributing.
These behaviors can emerge when anxiety or emotional demands exceed the coping resources available at that time. Dependency may signal a need for support, while withdrawal can reduce exposure to distress; a temper outburst may express frustration when the person cannot manage the situation more adaptively. Their meaning depends on the surrounding stress and conflict.
Clinicians can view childlike communication as information about how a person is managing anxiety or responding to unmet emotional needs, rather than automatically treating it as deliberate immaturity. Considering the behavior alongside its triggers, emotional context, and accompanying coping patterns supports a more accurate understanding of the person’s immediate difficulties.
Assessment can focus on the relationship between stressful events, conflict, overwhelming demands, and changes in behavior or emotional coping. Clinicians may consider whether dependency, withdrawal, temper outbursts, or childlike communication appeared in connection with reduced access to mature strategies. This contextual approach helps distinguish the behavior’s possible emotional function from its outward appearance.
Psychotherapy can use recognition of regression to explore anxiety, triggering stressors, interpersonal conflict, and unmet emotional needs. Rather than simply criticizing the behavior, treatment can focus on understanding its function and supporting the development of more adaptive coping skills. This approach may help the person respond to future demands with greater emotional flexibility.
Recognizing regression gives clinicians a framework for connecting observable behavior with the person’s current emotional demands. It can guide discussion of coping patterns, anxiety, and unmet needs during assessment and psychotherapy. The resulting understanding may support more appropriate clinical responses and help identify areas where more adaptive ways of managing stress are needed.