India, April 3 -- A new study from Heriot-Watt University's School of Social Sciences reveals that adverse childhood experiences not only make people react more negatively to bad events but also influence their responses to positive experiences in daily life.
The research, published in Emotion, was led by Dr. Sophie Potter from Heriot-Watt University in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leicester and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Their study examined how childhood adversity shapes emotional reactions to everyday events-both good and bad.
"Most research has focused on how people with difficult childhoods react more strongly to bad events, like stress or problems," Potter noted. "But there's no...