Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A distressed personality type that has high negative affectivity and social inhibition; the construct was proposed as an indicator of a poor prognosis for patients with heart disease.  

A daily exercise used for cognitive restructuring designed to identify, challenge, and replace automatic negative thoughts.  

Highly distressing experiences that can result in feelings of terror, extreme fright, or helplessness.  

Also known as dispositions; the particular characteristics or structural elements of personality that predispose a person to respond in certain ways. Any distinctive attribute or state that is passed down through inheritance, dictated by one or more genes. Examples of genetic traits encompass eye color like blue or brown, skin tone ranging from dark to…

Theories that suggest that individuals happiness levels are determined by how they view their circumstances.  

A characteristic of an altered or meditative state in which normal perception of time is lost.  

Appraisals in Lazarus’s model that the events have potential to result in harm or loss.  

Represented in Fredrickson’s broaden-and build model, the range of potential cognitions and behaviors available to a person.