Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A study that observes cohorts at only one point in time.  

Also known as coronary heart disease; a progressive degenerative inflammatory disease involving atherosclerosis of the heart’s arteries.  

The meaning attached to an appraisal that is linked to a specific emotional response.  

Assertively discussing one’s upset in an attempt to resolve the situation while considering the target of the anger’s point of view.  

One of the Big Five traits with characteristics such as ambitious, responsible, and hardworking.  

A form of meditation that includes mantra meditation in which the strategy employed is to focus or concentrate on one stimulus.  

One of three factors that comprise Antonovsky’s construct of sense of coherence that indicates the degree to which one can make cognitive sense of stimuli that one perceives.  

Keyes’s system that characterizes good mental health as a combination of the absence of mental illness and presence of hedonia/positive functioning.  

A model applied to the construct of stress that postulates that one’s stress reactions are a result of the mental filters one uses to think about the stressors.  

A programmed instruction in mantra meditation developed by Carrington.