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Culture and Health Psychology: Insights from a Socio-Cultural Perspective

... Organization (WHO) defined health as a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or ... hormone" as it is secreted in higher levels during body’s response to stress, during an acute laboratory stressor when they sought ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... meaning in this case refers to an evaluative, rather than a physical, orientation. The main idea behind the concept of embodied ... effects of recipient posture on persuasion: A cognitive response analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 209-222. ... / more

The Surprising Effect of Facial Appearance on Political Decision-Making

... outside of our awareness. Visual cues, for example, such as physical appearance, are instrumental in shaping our impressions of political ... suggests that feelings, like warmth or happiness, in response to a candidate’s facial gestures can influence voters’ attitudes ... / more

Penetrating the Circle of Death: Why People are Dying (and Killing) Not to Die

... we were never asked to sign; but it is nevertheless a physical reality that helps shape the cognitive existence of the only species ... Williams  (2008), who displayed worldview defense in response to a threat to Christianity, but not after reading an article ... / more

Love at First Sight

... appealing? One nose, two lips, two eyes – are such physical features sufficient in and of themselves to induce us to surrender our ... hears: a human being (especially if he or she quacks in response to a hatchling’s plaintive peep), or, strangely in the absence of a ... / more

From Heavens to Hells to Heroes

... nearly half the prisoners had emotional breakdowns in response to the extreme stress and psychological torments sadistically invented ... heroes. Heroes are not only the courageous few whose brave physical dangers to help others in distress . Heroes are all those willing ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... , classification, inference and contextually-cued response. The band affords a shared construction of reality—“common ... born in groups. On the one hand we are realists, having a physical world to negotiate; on the other, we are social constructivists, ... Birdsell, J. B. (1972). An introduction to the new physical anthropology. Chicago: Rand McNally. Brewer, M. B., & Caporael, ... / more

The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

... Dove launched the “Campaign for Real Beauty” in 2004, in response to the findings of a major global study, The Real Truth About Beauty: ... should be celebrated, rather than ignored, and that physical appearance should be transformed from a source of anxiety to a source ... / more

Re-thinking how we think about conformity

... idea, was driven in part by a desire to explore my physical limits, and also driven by the fact no one had skated that far before: ... According to this approach, people’s behavior is a response to the physical and social environment they find themselves in. Toshio ... / more

Seeing mountains in molehills: Embodied visual perception of the environment

... . Furthermore, research suggests that it is not only our physical states that alter the way we view the world, but our mental states as ... theory of motivation as a model of effort and cardiovascular response. In P. M. Gollwitzer and J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The psychology of action: ... / more