Shelley E Taylor, Annette L Stanton

Looseleaf for Health Psychology

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Produktbeschreibung

"When I wrote the first edition of Health Psychology over 30 years ago, the task was much simpler than it is now. Health psychology was a new field and was relatively small. In recent decades, the field has grown steadily, and great research advances have been made. Chief among these de-velopments has been the use and refinement of the biopsychosocial model: the study of health issues from the standpoint of biological, psychological, and social factors acting together. In-creasingly, research has attempted to identify the biological pathways by which psychosocial fac-tors such as stress may adversely affect health and potentially protective factors such as social support may buffer the impact of stress. My goal in the tenth edition of this text is to convey this increasing sophistication of the field in a manner that makes it accessible, comprehensible, and exciting to undergraduates"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• 11th edition
• Seitenzahl: 992
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 193mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781260834284
• ISBN-10: 126083428X
• Artikelnr.: 68105201

Autorenporträt

Shelley Taylor is professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University. Her research interests are in health psychology, especially the factors that promote long-term psychological adjustment, and in social cognition. In the former capacity, she is the co-director of the Health Psychology program at UCLA. Professor Taylor is the recipient of a number of awards--most notably, the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology Award, a 10-year Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, and an Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award in Health Psychology. She is the author of more than 200 publications in journals and books and is the author of Social Cognition and Positive Illusions.