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But almost everyone has a limit; a point where change can become too much. An inability to properly cope with change may lead to overwhelming feelings of distress, hopelessness, and helplessness. The good news is that you can learn to embrace the uncertainty and grow through change. On balance, most people find that change provides stimuli
- Keywords
- Abstract
- The Pervasive Psychology of Self-Defense
- What Are Self-Affirmations?
- Middle school participants
- College participants
- Recursive process:
- Interactive process:
- 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...
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I Study What I Stink At: Lessons Learned from a Career in Psychology Robert J. Sternberg
Oxytocin Pathways and the Evolution of Human Behavior C. Sue Carter
Gene-Environment Interaction Stephen B. Manuck and Jeanne M. McCaffery
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight John Kounios and Mark Beeman
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
Gender Similarities and Differences Janet Shibley Hyde
Deviance and Dissent in Groups Jolanda Jetten and Matthew J. Hornsey
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
By looking at the reasons we don’t change, we give ourselves the best chance of actually changing in meaningful ways. Ellenhorn explains how we are wired to double down on the familiar because of what he calls the "Fear of Hope" - the act of protecting ourselves from further disappointment—and identifies the “10 Reasons Not to Change ...
All of the conditions that impact people when seeking therapy are brought together in one cohesive framework: assumptions of learning, motivation, approach and avoidance, barriers to change, personality dynamics, and the way that individual behavioral repertoires are inter-related. Special emphasis is placed on environmental, social, and ...
Oct 31, 2020 · of behavior change posits that all impulses to act, think, or feel in a certain. way —regardless of whether they are good for us in the long run or. merely satisfy momentary desires — are ...
Overall, this book is comprehensive, thought provoking, reflective and highly engaging. It is an excellent text for any health professional interested in understanding change and why or how people change. Evans successfully applies change theories to clinical settings and real life (client) presentations.
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Books. How We Change: (and Ten Reasons why We Don't) Ross Ellenhorn. HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020 - Business & Economics - 364 pages. The Coronavirus pandemic has revealed a very big secret we've been keeping from ourselves and each other: We can be remarkably agile in the face of change. How is it that we are able to so radically and rapidly ...
