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Creating a New Definition of What It Means To Be Healthy

WEBThe World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “complete physical, mental, and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease or …

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More Stigma Leads to Worse Physical Health SPSP

WEBMore Stigma Leads to Worse Physical Health. Scientists have known for some time that prejudice and discrimination can harm people’s health. People who are s …

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Self-affirmation Changes Health Behavior SPSP

WEBSelf-affirmation interventions lead to positive responses to health information from improving message acceptance, to increasing intentions to act and subsequent …

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Positive Experiences in Close Relationships Are Associated …

WEBSocial relationships influence physical health, but questions remain about the nature of this connection. New research in Social Psychological and Personality …

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Magnifying Inequity: Women’s Lives During the COVID-19 …

WEBGlobally, women's physical health and safety suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shelter-in-place mandates created unsafe environments, increasing the high …

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Male Suicide: A Public Health Emergency SPSP

WEBDec 29, 2023 BY Susanna Bennett. Male suicide is a global public health crisis. In almost every country, more men die by suicide than women. In the United States and the …

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When Targeted Health Messages Are Too Close for Comfort

WEBFirst, we wanted to know if receiving health messages that are ostensibly racially targeted raises alarm for all recipients or only for people with a stigmatized racial …

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Being Good, Doing Good SPSP

WEBBeing Good, Doing Good. Feb 22, 2023 BY Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska. Based on philosophical and religious traditions, greater well-being and better health are assumed …

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How Are Your Personality and Health Interconnected …

WEBAcross the three studies, people's personality traits and different health outcomes were both assessed at multiple time points over 9 to 24 years, with the …

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Can Imagining Your Future Improve Your Health

WEBEspecially for people whose futures feel ambiguous or uncertain, bridging the gap between their present and future selves can help build health in the present …

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Where Women Store Fat On Their Bodies Impacts Their …

WEBWritten by: Kristan Russell, PhD Candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno. Presentation: Fat Location, Beyond Fat Amount, Predicts Mental Health and Well-being in Women …

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Making the Moral Case in Politicized Health Messaging SPSP

WEBMaking the Moral Case in Politicized Health Messaging. Mar 11, 2024 BY Andy Luttrell. It seems like politics affects everything people do. The shows people …

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A. Janet Tomiyama SPSP

WEBOct 26, 2020. A. Janet Tomiyama is an associate professor in the department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses largely …

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When Social Status is Bad for Health SPSP

WEBCynthia’s research focuses on culture, inequality, health, and well-being. She is especially interested in how thinking or feeling in ways that fit with the norms of …

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The Challenge and Risk of Seeing Problems as Clinical Disorders

WEBThat might seem an odd question. But the medical document that defines clinical disorders – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders or DSM-5 – includes …

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Improving Healthcare by Harnessing the Social Context SPSP

WEBChanging these mindsets might be fruitful. As Kari Leibowitz explained, “Mindsets could be leveraged in future interventions to strengthen the patient-provider …

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The Dark Side of Being a “Healthcare Hero” During the Pandemic

WEBThe Dark Side of Being a “Healthcare Hero” During the Pandemic. Mar 15, 2024 BY Devin J. Rapp, J. Matthew Hughey, and Glen E. Kreiner. At the outset of the …

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PSYC255 P3: Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine

WEBHealth Psychology: An Introduction to Behavior and Health, 8th Edition. Cengage Learning. ISBN-13: 9781133593072. Course Resources: The course syllabus, lecture notes, …

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Wealth Doesn’t Always Equal Health SPSP

WEBA recent meta-analysis of 58 studies involving over 4.6 million participants showed that Hispanics have about a 17.5% lower risk of death compared with other …

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Is There a Positive Side to Suffering

WEBWe asked people to imagine creating a suffering potion out of 37 “ingredients” which were positive (examples being health, strength, and hopefulness) or negative words (like illness, weakness, and hopelessness). As it turns out, Euro-Canadians used more negative ingredients than Chinese, who in turn used more positive ingredients.

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PSY 407: Health Psychology San Diego State University …

WEB2. Compare and contrast models of health behaviors 3. Identify psychology’s role in acute, chronic, and terminal illness 4. Evaluate the effectiveness of health behavior change …

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How Identity Is Linked to Well-being for Biracial People

WEBBiracial people who more frequently had their identity denied believed that society does not value Biracial people. This belief was linked with three important …

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