Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin condition with significant physical and psychosocial comorbidity. A workshop of leading experts in dermatology and psychology with the purpose of better understanding the current role of psychological ...
Julia eSchwartz +5 more
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Boosting stress resilience using flexibility as a framework to reduce depression risk
Stress exposure is inevitable, and major life events often precede depression onset. However, a majority do not develop depression after a major life event.
Annelise A. Madison
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Evaluating Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia as a Mediator of Relations between Minority Stress and Depressive Symptoms Among Sexual Minorities [PDF]
Compared with heterosexuals, those with sexual minority identities (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual) are at significantly greater risk of psychopathology, including depression—the most common mental health disorder in the general population. A large body of
Mustafa, Jazmyn
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The attachment system and physiology in adulthood: normative processes, individual differences, and implications for health. [PDF]
Attachment theory provides a conceptual framework for understanding intersections between personality and close relationships in adulthood. Moreover, attachment has implications for stress-related physiology and physical health.
Ainsworth +88 more
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Differences in empathic abilities between acting, dance, and psychology students were explored, in addition to the appropriateness of existing empathy measures in the context of these cohorts.
Isabell Schmidt +3 more
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Vocations as a source of identity: reciprocal relations between Big Five personality traits and RIASEC characteristics [PDF]
Although work is a core part of life, the direction of influence from personality to work has typically been conceived as only unidirectional. The present study aims to contribute to the literature by considering reciprocal relations between personality ...
De Fruyt, Filip, Wille, Bart
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Blood Pressure Reactivity to Psychological Stress [PDF]
The report by Matthews et al1 in this issue of Hypertension that increased systolic blood pressure reactivity while playing a video game predicts increased incidence of having some coronary calcification 13 years later is consistent with prior research they cite showing associations between cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress and various indices ...
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Influencing the physiology and decisions of groups: Physiological linkage during group decision-making [PDF]
Many of the most important decisions in our society are made within groups, yet we know little about how the physiological responses of group members predict the decisions that groups make.
Dumitru, Oana D +3 more
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Cortisol reactivity to psychosocial stress is greater in sexual risk takers [PDF]
Several studies have reported an association between deviant behaviour and cortisol reactivity to stress. However relatively few studies have investigated the relationship between psychobiological stress reactivity and sexual risk taking behaviours.
Harrison, Claire +3 more
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Contagious Anxiety: Anxious European Americans Can Transmit Their Physiological Reactivity to African Americans. [PDF]
During interracial encounters, well-intentioned European Americans sometimes engage in subtle displays of anxiety, which can be interpreted as signs of racial bias by African American partners.
Koslov, Katrina +4 more
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