All published articles by Dr. Saeila Vali Pour for quick reading and review.
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Detachment from mental interpretations begins when the mind turns a thought into a “mental event” rather than treating it as “reality.” In metacognitive approaches, this shift is supported by two skills: active observat…
Attentional bias means that the mind selectively highlights a small portion of environmental information while making other stimuli less important or ignoring them altogether. In the field of anxiety, this selection oft…
In everyday life, performance quality in moments of pressure isn’t determined solely by “psychological strength.” A set of coping patterns and personality traits determines how people understand tension, evaluate it, an…
Self-Understanding Based on Trait Patterns: From “Labels” to Insight in the Five-Factor ModelSelf-understanding goes beyond the level of slogans when, instead of relying on quick impressions and oversimplifying labels, …
Personality is a set of relatively stable patterns in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; however, this stability is neither identical nor absolute. Many traits remain the same over time, but others change with shifting …
Clinical Assessments Without Absolute Certainty: A Dialogue Framework, Interviewing, and Problem ConceptualizationClinical assessment becomes more valuable when it recognizes that “absolute certainty” in psychology and …
Self-esteem erosion often takes shape through social interactions that are slow and subtle—where, in order to feel a sense of belonging to a group, a person has to expose part of themselves to others’ judgment. In many …
Parenting style from the earliest years of life provides a framework for learning emotions; the child learns, through how parents interact with fear, anger, sadness, and joy, to recognize emotions, regulate them, and re…
Automatic Thoughts: How Unconscious Thoughts Influence Feelings and BehaviorIn many everyday situations, emotional and behavioral reactions form before the mind has time to find a precise explanation. An important part …
Everyday decisions, even when they seem perfectly obvious, usually pass through several psychological layers. One of these layers relates to “personality models”—frameworks that explain how people organize their thinkin…
