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Health in the United States: Are Appeals to Choice and …

WEB644 Hook, Markus prevent them? The causes of ill health are complex and multifactorial, yet the answers offered by mainstream U.S. culture are strikingly narrow: Poor personal …

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Changing Mindsets to Build Cultures of Health SPARQ

WEBThe United States ranks #1 in the world in per capita health care spending, but ranks in the bottom half of wealthy nations in life expectancy, infant mortality, …

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Americans’ Health Mindsets: Content, Cultural Patterning, and …

WEBbehavioral components that allow individuals to orient toward and pursue health, as they understand it in their cultural contexts [5, 17]. Despite the robust effects of mindsets on …

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Empowering Parents Reduces Abuse SPARQ

WEBThe researchers found that fewer parents in the cognitive training condition (4%) physically abused their children than did parents in the home visit condition (23%) or the control …

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Caring Letters Prevent Suicide SPARQ

WEBThe letters expressed concern, care, and a desire to stay in contact. For instance, one letter read: Dear John, It has been some time since you were here at the hospital, and we …

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When Students Feel They Belong, They Thrive SPARQ

WEBThey first randomly assigned half of the 92 study participants (the belonging condition) to read survey results showing that most first-year students at their school, regardless of …

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SPARQ 'Connect to Health' Study in the News SPARQ

WEBState Has Good Care If You Can Get It, According to Text-Message Study. By David Gorn, California Healthline, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Low-income …

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Rethinking Stress: The Role of Mindsets in Determining the

WEBeustress: “good” stress that yields a benefit (Alpert & Haber, 1960; Lazarus, 1974; Le Fevre, Matheny, & Kolt, 2003; Selye, 1975). When the body encounters …

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Disclosure of Traumas and Immune Function: Health …

WEB240 J. PENNEBAKER, J. KIECOLT-GLASER, AND R. GLASER study, subjects in the trauma-combination condition visited the student health center for illness significantly …

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Students of color show health advantages when they attend

WEBStudents of color show health advantages when they attend schools that emphasize the value of diversity Cynthia S. Levinea,1,2, Hazel Rose Markusb,1, Makeda K. Austina, …

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Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing

WEBHealth benefits of expressive writing expressive writing • • • • • • • • • • •

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Publications SPARQ

WEBClash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World By Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner. As our planet gets smaller, cultural conflicts are becoming fiercer. Rather than lamenting …

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Written Emotional Expression: Effect Sizes, Outcome Types, …

WEBWRITTEN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION 175 leads to affective and physiological change (Pennebaker, 1989, 1993). Specifically, written emotional expression leads to the

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Do Messages about Health Risks Threaten the Self

WEBself-image to dis ease and, hence, threaten that self-image. An indi vid ual’s self-image, con sist ing of impor - tant rela tion ships, val ues, expe ri ences, and behav iors, is

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DOI: 10.1177/0956797611421936 Intervention on Weight Loss …

WEBObesity is a major risk factor for chronic disease (World Health Organization, WHO, 2000). Maintaining a healthy body mass index (BMI) requires two things: the ability to cope with …

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Reading Between the Menu Lines: Are Restaurants’ …

WEBBRIEF REPORT Reading Between the Menu Lines: Are Restaurants’ Descriptions of “Healthy” Foods Unappealing? Bradley P. Turnwald, Dan Jurafsky, Alana Conner, and …

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