As human beings, we have the capacity to reflect on our past behaviors. By understanding our previous actions, we can make informed decisions about the future. For example, let’s imagine that I ...

Rumination is one of the similarities between anxiety and depression. Ruminating is simply repetitively going over a thought or a problem without completion. When people are depressed, the themes of ...

The phrase “chew the cud” means to further chew partly digested food — but many of us use it to mean something rather more abstract. The scientific word for this is rumination: A process of breaking ...