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Last of the 2022 Research

February 19, 2023 By Elaine 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: highly sensitive people, HSP, hsp research

Research from 2022 on High Sensitivity

November 15, 2022 By Elaine 38 Comments

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 […]

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Research: High Sensitivity Wrongly Identified with Narcissism, Plus Studies on Parenting Applied to Managing and Caregiving

August 22, 2022 By Elaine 60 Comments

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, […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: HSP, hsp research

More HSP Research

July 30, 2022 By Elaine 6 Comments

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. […]

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More Research, from 2018 and 2019

May 14, 2022 By Elaine 16 Comments

I am continuing to close the gap between my 2017 report on research of HSPs/SPS (sensory processing sensitivity) and what is being published in 2022. In my last blog, I reported on the recent research and what had come out in 2021. Of course, I am already behind, with the new studies in 2022.  But here you […]

Filed Under: General, Research Tagged With: Dr Elaine Aron, highly sensitive children, highly sensitive people, HSC, HSP, hsp research

2021 Research on HSPs

February 9, 2022 By Elaine 28 Comments

I looked through the website and realized I have not written a blog about the research since 2017! I truly apologize. At this point I can hardly keep up, because there are so many research studies on high sensitivity (a.k.a. Sensory Processing Sensitivity, which by the way has nothing to do with Sensory Processing Disorder).  […]

Filed Under: General, Research Tagged With: Dr Elaine Aron, elaine aron, high sensitivity, highly sensitive people, HSP, hsp research

On Being a Unique HSP

November 30, 2021 By Elaine 63 Comments

As some of you know, I have stepped back from some of my HSP activities (not the research) to write a book on something different, not on HSPs. I already knew I needed to back off, but the pandemic brought it home to me, that I specifically wanted to move away from the job of […]

Filed Under: Emotions, General, Relationships, Spirituality Tagged With: diversity, highly sensitive, HSP, HSPs, pandemic, purpose

Impermanence and the Highly Sensitive Person

September 14, 2021 By Elaine 78 Comments

Do not worry, this is not all a downer, but we HSPs cannot ignore things, like the rapid change in the last few years.  There’s the crazy weather, with floods and droughts, burning forests and smoke everywhere, with evacuations and personal losses.  And we now live with face masks (or not) lines for vaccines (or […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Anthropocene, climate change, high sensitivity, highly sensitive people, HSP, meditation

How Are Highly Sensitive Men Different?

July 19, 2021 By Elaine 84 Comments

As some of you know, I have a special place in my heart for highly sensitive men.  I really do like them.  That is part of why I want to see this movie made about them.  But what makes them different from other HSPs or other men? I am becoming increasingly averse to making generalizations […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: designated survivor, high sensitivity, highly sensitive, highly sensitive man, HSP

My Journey as a Sensitivity Researcher by Prof. Michael Pluess

May 24, 2021 By admin 31 Comments

Let me start by admitting that I never planned to pursue an academic career in the first place. As a result, I don’t have a typical university professor background. Whilst growing up in Switzerland, music was my main passion. I played various instruments and dreamt of touring the world as a bass guitarist. And in […]

Filed Under: Emotions, General, Research Tagged With: highly sensitive, highly sensitive men, HSP

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