This review examined (a) whether hypochondriacal/health-anxious individuals hold distinct
assumptions about health and illness,(b) if triggering these assumptions leads to increased …

Welcome to Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (Seventh Edition). This
textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the growing field of health psychology. It is …

This paper reviews the relevant cognitive research on health anxiety and hypochondriasis,
as well as research examining temperament/personality and social developmental factors …

Background Individuals with questions about their health often turn to the Internet for
information about their symptoms, but the degree to which health anxiety is related to online …

Context Attentional bias to disease-relevant emotional cues is considered to be
pathogenetically relevant in anxiety disorders. Objective To investigate functional neural …

A hyper-emotion theory of psychological illnesses is presented. It postulates that these
illnesses have an onset in which a cognitive evaluation initiates a sequence of unconscious …

Never has our culture been more aware of personal and global health hazards, from both
within and without. While most people may feel some anxiety in this regard, some have an …

The study investigated attentional biases for pictorial and linguistic health‐threat stimuli in
high and low health anxious individuals, who were selected from the upper and lower …

Attentional bias toward health-threat may theoretically contribute to the development and
maintenance of health anxiety, but the empirical findings have been controversial. This study …

Die Angst vor Krankheit und dem Tod sind Urängste der Menschheit. Im Verlauf seines
Lebens setzt sich jeder Mensch in mehr oder weniger intensiver Form mit dem eigenen …