My plan for at least a while is to report on some of the latest research—a few studies that are well done and might be interesting to you—and then in the same blog write something more helpful and personal. In this case, it is probably more personal than helpful! And long. So I start with […]
Time to Say a Little about Aging, Medical Stuff, and HSPs—Plus a Research Study on Aging HSPs
Although I have been asked many times to write something for “older HSPs,” how we in particular may experience aging and the problems that come with it, I have resisted, resisted, resisted. So many people my age are obsessed with this stuff. Honestly, I have always thought the subject boring. We are all getting older. […]
The Research Nails It: Sensitivity is About Depth of Processing
The trait of high sensitivity is in essence all about processing information more deeply. This noticing of details and their meaning is the basic survival trait inherited by a minority of individuals within many species, humans included. This trait allows sensitive individuals to notice opportunities and threats that others miss. Why always a minority? Why […]
Revisiting Vulnerable Narcissism and HSPs
In August 2022, I wrote a blog strongly questioning an article saying that high sensitivity (HS) can “overlap” with vulnerable narcissism (as opposed to the grandiose form). Scott Barry Kaufman wrote a good blog on this too. Vulnerable narcissists are a relatively new idea, a category of narcissists born from the observation that they are highly focused on themselves—”am […]
Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seekers—Giving Equal Love to Both Parts
This blog is about high sensitivity and high sensation seeking because I want you to stay informed about recent research and we just published an article on this subject by Bianca Acevedo, Art Aron, me, Tracy Cooper, and Robert Marhenke: “Sensory processing sensitivity and its relation to sensation seeking,” in the 2023 issue of Current Research in […]
Mental Health Awareness Month – Supporting HSPs & Highly Sensitive Youths – Guest Blog by Alane Freund, MS, MA
Guest Blog by Alane Freund, MS, MA May is mental health awareness month. For 2023, the Mental Health Awareness month campaign “is focused on how surroundings impact mental health, and we are calling for individuals to look around, look within.” In 1949, Mental Health America (MHA) designated May as Mental Health Month to raise awareness […]
Last of the 2022 Research
My plan is to finish up here telling you about the research done in 2022. In the future I will just choose one new study and write about what it brings up for me to talk to you about it. So as promised, here are the last good studies of 2022. I know some of you […]
Research from 2022 on High Sensitivity
It is nice to keep showing you the research. There is so much more of it now and it is so varied. If you want you can skim this easily, by just reading the titles of the studies and the “Bottom Line.” But enjoy the overall effect–the sense of the growing interest by scholars in […]
Research: High Sensitivity Wrongly Identified with Narcissism, Plus Studies on Parenting Applied to Managing and Caregiving
This blog on research needs a long introduction before coming to the studies themselves. After receiving questions about the research article “Do highly sensitive persons display hypersensitive narcissism?” that came out in February, I knew it was going to be an issue for HSPs. Hence the first half of this blog. As a heads up, […]
More HSP Research
These are more interesting studies, from various dates. I am still catching up. 1.Role of Childhood Adversities and Environmental Sensitivity in the Development of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in War-Exposed Syrian Refugee Children and Adolescents. Karam, E. G., Fayyad, J. A., Farhat, C., Pluess, M., Haddad, Y. C., Tabet, C. C., … & Kessler, R. C. […]