Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Highly sensitive people (HSPs), or people with sensory processing sensitivity, ...

Have you ever wondered why certain people in your life seem to react more intensely to the world around them? Whether it’s a ...

Sensory processing sensitivity, however, interacted with both changes in negative parenting and changes in positive parenting in predicting negative behavior seven months later, so that improvements ...

In 1997, psychologist Elaine Aron introduced the Highly Sensitive Person Scale, which has been used to measure a trait called sensory-processing sensitivity. Aron categorized people with high ...

Sensitivity to sound, light and touch affect neurodivergent people differently. Here are the strategies and tech products I use to help me function. John Carlsen has more than a decade of experience ...

The “Relationship between the Temperament Trait of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Emotional Reactivity” was published in 2016, in the Journal Social Behavior and Personality. The first author is ...