Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Health psychology
A specialty area of psychology that uses the scientific and professional knowledge base of the discipline of psychology to promote and maintain health as well as to treat illnesses.
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Health-conscious living
To live with full awareness of how the choices we make affect our health.
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Hassles
Small irritants and pressures experienced in everyday life.
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Harm-loss appraisals
Primary appraisals in Lazarus’s model that the event involves damage or a loss.
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Happiness set point
The idea that happiness levels are fixed, stable across time, and somewhat impervious to control.
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Hand warming
Using cognitive strategies to voluntarily increase skin temperature of the hands.
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Guided meditation
A form of mindfulness meditation that may be scripted in which the participant focuses on aspects of the self that are relevant to his or her aspirations such as managing stress or increasing intimacy levels.
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Guided imagery relaxation
A deep relaxation strategy that uses language to create relaxing sensory-filled images and scenarios that transport the participants to new worlds within their imagination.
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Gratitude
A feeling of appreciation for something good that another is responsible for bringing about.
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Goodness of fit hypothesis
Suggests that coping is most effective when there is a good match between the coping strategy and the amount of control one can exert over the stressor.
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