About 12 years ago, the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" depicted the push-pull between accepting disappointing real-life experiences and conflating them into imaginary ones. And a 2017 YouTube ...

The use of high-protease pancreatic replacement therapy demonstrated improvement in maladaptive behaviors, such as irritability, in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to ...

A recent study provides evidence that intense and disruptive forms of fantasy have been documented in classic fiction for centuries. The research suggests that compulsive fantasy is an enduring part ...

Adverse early experiences, such as parental neglect, abuse, the death of a loved one, or other traumatic events, are known to influence how humans will behave as adults. For instance, studies have ...

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A poster that was presented in the Tenth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2025. The term risk-taking carries inherent negative associations because of the potential for ...