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Get a grip on your stress now to avoid problems later
USA Today: Here’s a good reason to get a grip on the stress in your life. If you handle stress poorly — everything from conflicts at work to disagreements with your spouse to irritations like Visit Page
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Stress Can Take a Toll on Your Long-Term Mental Health, New Study Says
Shape: As though you don’t have enough to worry about, now you have to worry about how you react to the everyday stresses of life: A recently published study in the journal Psychological Science suggests Visit Page
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Fredrickson and Other Leading Scientists to Sign Books at the APS Annual Convention
APS Fellow Barbara L. Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, knows how to communicate psychological science to the public. On March 24, her op-ed on electronic devices, social connectedness, and health quickly became Visit Page
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Meditation Is About More Than Inner Peace, Study Says
Boston Magazine: People who practice meditation often do so for individual health benefits like reduced stress and improved mental health. But new research from Northeastern University’s Social Emotions Group says meditation also has an effect on Visit Page
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Smile and the world smiles back. Can looking at faces lower aggression?
The Guardian: Before I started my PhD, I worked as a “research assistant”. That’s a fancy title for an academic dogsbody; well, it can be. I was lucky and had some great bosses in the Visit Page
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Darby Saxbe
University of Southern California http://dornsife.usc.edu/nestlab What does your research focus on? I am fascinated by how social interconnections, particularly within families, shape our bodies and brains. For example, are spouses’ cortisol levels coordinated? How do Visit Page
