Jason Moser
Associate Professor
Multi-method approaches to self-regulation deficits in anxiety.
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Dr. Moser received his B.A. in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Delaware. Prior to arriving at MSU as an assistant professor and director of the MSU Clinical Psychophysiology Lab (CPL), Dr. Moser completed a one-year clinical internship at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology where he received training in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in military veterans. Dr. Moser’s previous clinical ... training was at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety.
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University of Delaware: Ph.D., Psychology, Clinical Science | 2009
University of Delaware: M.A., Psychology, Clinical Science | 2006
Pennsylvania State University: B.A., Psychology | 2001
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Meghan Markle spoke candidly about mental health in bombshell interview. Experts say impact 'could be huge'
Yahoo! | 2021-03-08
Mental health experts applaud Markle's candidness. "Although the pressure to be 'normal' and perfect is so great for someone like Meghan Markle, the impact of her showing that vulnerability to the world could be huge," Jason Moser, a professor of psychology at Michigan State University, tells Yahoo Life. Moser says, the more people like Markle share their own struggles with mental health, "the more it becomes acceptable for others to come forward and get the care they need." Moser is hopeful that Markle's revelations can help chip away at mental health stigmas. “It needs to be OK for people to share their struggles and get the care they need," he says. "It's OK to struggle and make mistakes and have problems. The more we accept this truth, the more we'll be able to move forward in so many ways."
Why you should talk to yourself in the third person
VICE | 2020-12-28
One of the most intriguing aspects of distanced self-talk is that as a strategy for emotional regulation, it seems to take very little effort. In brain imaging studies in collaboration with Jason Moser, a Michigan State University associate professor of psychology, Kross and his colleagues found that not only did third-person inner talk reduce emotional overwhelm, but the brain areas associated with cognitive control weren’t sent into overdrive. “Third-person self-talk may constitute a relatively effortless form of self-control,” they wrote in the paper, published in Nature Scientific Reports in 2017.
Talking to yourself isn’t crazy, it’s stress relief
New York Post | 2017-07-27
“Essentially, we think referring to yourself in the third person leads people to think about themselves more similar to how they think about others, and you can see evidence for this in the brain,” explains MSU associate professor of psychology Jason Moser. “That helps people gain a tiny bit of psychological distance from their experiences, which can often be useful for regulating emotions.”...
How Journaling Can Help You Stop Worrying
Realsimple | 2017-09-17
It may sound counterintuitive—the fact that dwelling on your biggest fears, and literally putting them into words, can help you feel better and focus in on the task at hand. “But if you get these things out of your head and put them down on paper, it externalizes them and frees up your mind to think about other things,” says study co-author Jason Moser, director of Michigan State University’s Psychophysiology Lab...
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