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What Change Means for You. Start thinking about what you might want to change about yourself or your life. Sometimes we make personal changes for ourselves, and sometimes we feel pressured to make changes for other people. Think about why you want to change.
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- Abstract
- The Pervasive Psychology of Self-Defense
- What Are Self-Affirmations?
- Middle school participants
- College participants
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- IMPLICATIONS, QUALIFICATIONS, AND QUESTIONS
- FUTURE ISSUES
- DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
- Prefatory
- Stress and Neuroendocrinology
- Genetics of Behavior
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Color Perception
- Infancy
- Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
- Jaana Juvonen and Sandra Graham
- Adulthood and Aging
- Development in the Family
- Individual Treatment
- Adult Clinical Neuropsychology
- Self and Identity
- Gender
- Small Groups
- Social Neuroscience
- Genes and Personality
- Job/Work Design
- Selection and Placement
- Personality and Coping Styles
- Errata
health, intervention, relationships, self-affirmation, stereotype threat
People have a basic need to maintain the integrity of the self, a global sense of personal adequacy. Events that threaten self-integrity arouse stress and self-protective defenses that can hamper performance and growth. However, an intervention known as self-affirmation can curb these negative outcomes. Self-affirmation interventions typically have...
Cycle of adaptive potential: a positive feedback loop between the self-system and the social system that propagates adaptive outcomes over time
Self-affirmation: an act that manifests one’s adequacy and thus affirms one’s sense of global self-integrity
Dance is important to me, because it is my passion, my life. My second home is the dance studio, my second family is my dance team. My family and friends are so important to me, even more than dance. My family, I can’t live without them. My friends, I am my real self around them (and my sister). I can be silly, goofy, and weird and they don’t care,...
How can one get by without friendship or family? I know I couldn’t, I need that support, at times it can feel like the only thing I have that’s real. At other times I don’t need it, but love and comfort from relationships is something that is always nice. ... I was stuck in Keystone this winter and had no [way] of getting back home, I felt helpless...
a process in which the output feeds back as an input
a process in which the output serves as an input to an altogether different process in a system
Values affirmations can improve grades for students in a lasting way, open people up to threat-ening health information, reduce sympathetic nervous system activation during stressors, lead overweight people to lose weight, increase patients’ compliance with treatment regimens, and improve intergroup and interpersonal relations. Its versatility refl...
Some people may affirm themselves spontaneously. Indeed, some people try to turn almost any writing exercise into a self-affirming one. What are the effects of these self-generatedaffirmations?Howdotheydifferfromtheexperimentallyinducedaffirmations? And how can researchers capture the spontaneous affirmation process and its effects in everyday life...
The authors are not aware of any affiliations, memberships, funding, or financial holdings that might be perceived as affecting the objectivity of this review.
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Oxytocin Pathways and the Evolution of Human Behavior C. Sue Carter
Gene-Environment Interaction Stephen B. Manuck and Jeanne M. McCaffery
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Color Psychology: Effects of Perceiving Color on Psychological Functioning in Humans Andrew J. Elliot and Markus A. Maier
Human Infancy. . . and the Rest of the Lifespan Marc H. Bornstein
Bullying in Schools: The Power of Bullies and the Plight of Victims
Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing? Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Kathryn L. Mills
Psychological Research on Retirement Mo Wang and Junqi Shi
Adoption: Biological and Social Processes Linked to Adaptation
Combination Psychotherapy and Antidepressant Medication Treatment for Depression: For Whom, When, and How W. Edward Craighead and Boadie W. Dunlop
Sport and Nonsport Etiologies of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Similarities and Differences Amanda R. Rabinowitz, Xiaoqi Li, and Harvey S. Levin
The Psychology of Change: Self-Affirmation and Social Psychological Intervention Geoffrey L. Cohen and David K. Sherman
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An online log of corrections to Annual Review of Psychology articles may be found at http://psych.AnnualReviews.org/errata.shtml viii Contents
An online log of corrections to Annual Review of Psychology articles may be found at http://psych.AnnualReviews.org/errata.shtml viii Contents
An online log of corrections to Annual Review of Psychology articles may be found at http://psych.AnnualReviews.org/errata.shtml viii Contents
An online log of corrections to Annual Review of Psychology articles may be found at http://psych.AnnualReviews.org/errata.shtml viii Contents
An online log of corrections to Annual Review of Psychology articles may be found at http://psych.AnnualReviews.org/errata.shtml viii Contents
An online log of corrections to Annual Review of Psychology articles may be found at http://psych.AnnualReviews.org/errata.shtml viii Contents
gs. Dr. Manejwala explains how and why our brain drives behavior, how to change the part of our brain that fuels our cravings, the warning signs that craving is evolving into addiction, why craving is the most dificult component of addiction to address, why self-help and spiritual groups that use models like the Twelve Steps are so effective at ...
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Why do you crave certainty so much? After all, what’s absolutely certain in life, anyway? • Ask people you trust how they cope with change and uncertainty. Is their approach something you could adopt? • Recognize what it is that triggers or exacerbates your fear of change, so you can take steps to address it.
You may feel increasingly excited as you imagine how it will taste and how you’ll feel eating it. Maybe you last ate several hours ago, or maybe you’re still digesting your last meal. These urges are called cravings, which can pop up at any moment, and aren’t always fueled by hunger pangs.
The text moves on to the many influential components of change, highlighting clinician variables, client variables (i.e., self-efficacy, intention to change, support to change), the function of the behaviour, and environmental and cultural influences on behaviour change.
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Oct 31, 2020 · To change behavior for the better, we can strategically modify objective situations, where we pay attention, how we construct appraisals, and how we enact responses.
