Life stress is a central construct in many models of human health and disease. The present
article reviews research on stress and health, with a focus on (a) how life stress has been …

Life stress is a central construct in health research because it is associated with increased
risk for a variety of serious mental and physical health problems, including anxiety disorders …

Objectives: Although the health consequences of life stress exposure in the general
population are well known, how different stressors occurring over the lifetime cause …

The exciting field of human social genomics provides an evolutionarily informed, multilevel
framework for understanding how positive and negative social–environmental experiences …

Subjective stress severity appraisals have consistently emerged as better predictors of poor
health than stressor exposure, but the reason for this is unclear. Subjective stress may better …

The present review investigates factors that predict three processes that lead to persistence
versus change of expectations after confrontation with expectation violations, based on the …

Although research has shown that certain aspects of personality can change over time, the
determinants of such change remain unclear. Stress alters neural dynamics and precipitates …

Expectations about us and our environment serve to successfully anticipate the future, make
accurate predictions, and guide behavior and decisions. However, when expectations are …

An emphasis on the physiological activity related to psychological stress is hardly novel.
Considering stress from the perspective of embodiment, however, places that physiological …

Prior research has found that people tend to be more creative when experiencing positive
affect, especially when experiencing high activation positive affect (eg, excitement, joy). In …