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What Science Says You Can Do to Help Reduce Your Cancer Risk
Millions of people are diagnosed with cancer each year, and while not all cases of cancer are preventable, between one third and one half of these cases could be prevented by changing some everyday behaviors. Knowing that your behavior can have a real impact on your health is helpful, but what specific things can you do? Here’s…
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Why Sharing Good News Matters For Your Relationships
Sharing positive news with others is associated with benefits such as feeling more positive and more satisfied with life, greater self-esteem, and decreases in feeling lonely.
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Emotions and Health: Not Just a “First-World Problem”
Refuting the idea that the relationship between emotions and health is just a “first-world problem,” both positive and negative emotions were uniquely related to self-reported health outcomes in this global sample.
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Ideal Affect: How What You Want to Feel Can Impact Your Choices
For the most part, people want to feel good things, such as feeling excited, enthusiastic, calm, or relaxed. But according to affect valuation theory, the type of good feelings people strive for—or their ideal affect—impacts the kind of behavior they engage in.
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Social Relationships and Your Health
Aside from just making us feel good, our relationships may also be helping to keep us healthy.
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What’s the Latest from the World of Social and Health Psychology? Reporting from the Social Personality and Health Network Conference
What do Facebook, biological assays, virtual reality, recording devices, and civic engagement programs have in common?
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5 Reasons to Add Sleeping More to Your Holiday Wish List
“I planned out our whole day!” Will Ferrell’s character prefaces his list of holiday activities in Elf. Even if your holiday season to-do list isn’t quite as festive as Buddy the Elf’s, you likely know the feeling of having a lot to do around this time of year. One item that rarely makes the to-do…
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Why It’s Important to Continue Being Grateful Even After Thanksgiving
The idea of being grateful for what we have not only sounds like a good sanity check in the midst of a crazy holiday season, but research has also shown that gratitude may even play a role in both our physical and mental health.
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5 Reasons You Should Make Time to Read Fiction (Especially Harry Potter)
Here are some reasons to reconsider your schedule and think about adding some fiction
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The Power of Social Belonging
In his final novel, Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about…You are not alone.’”