Stress, helplessness and control: The implications of laboratory studies

The Stress of Life

1956 • 5,480 citations

Will it hurt less if I can control it? A complex answer to a simple question.

1981 • 1,049 citations

Contributions to Medical Psychology

1977 • 965 citations

Psychopathology : experimental models

1977 • 488 citations

Depression: The predisposing influence of stress

1982 • 431 citations

Cardiovascular response to mental stress in normal adolescents with hypertensive parents. Hemodynamics and mental stress in adolescents.

1979 • 410 citations

The Relationship Among Heart Rate, Carotid dP/dt, and Blood Pressure in Humans as a Function of the Type of Stress

1978 • 370 citations

Stress and cancer.

1981 • 367 citations

Psychoneuroimmunology

1982 • 297 citations

Stress and cancer.

1981 • 282 citations

Ulcers in “Executive” Monkeys

1958 • 189 citations

The effects of control over high intensity noise on plasma cortisol levels in rhesus monkeys

1976 • 165 citations

Task Difficulty, Heart Rate Reactivity, and Cardiovascular Responses to an Appetitive Reaction Time Task

1983 • 162 citations

Cardiovascular Response to Stress: Effects of Opportunity to Avoid, Shock Experience, and Performance Feedback

1980 • 147 citations

Behavioral Response Demands, Cardiovascular Reactivity, and Essential Hypertension

1984 • 139 citations

The concept of "stress" in the biological and social sciences.

1973 • 133 citations

IS ADRENALINE THE CAUSE OF ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION?

1981 • 115 citations

Psychological factors in cardiovascular disorders

1981 • 109 citations

Effects of Coping on Blood Pressure Responses to Threat of Aversive Stimulation

1978 • 106 citations

Psychopathology of Human Adaptation

1976 • 104 citations

Selectivity of Corticosteroid and Catecholamine Responses to Various Natural Stimuli

1976 • 86 citations

Communication to the Editor

1964 • 76 citations

Blood Pressure Responses to Long-Term Avoidance Schedules in the Restrained Rhesus Monkey

1969 • 76 citations

Behavioral control over aversive events: Does control that requires effort reduce anxiety and physiological arousal?

1980 • 69 citations

Psychosomatic Medicine

1978 • 62 citations

Availability of avoidance behaviors in modulating vascular-stress responses.

1971 • 59 citations

Anxiety, anger, and neurogenic tone at rest and in stress in patients with primary hypertension.

1981 • 47 citations

Effects of Acute Exposure to Stress on Subsequent Aggression and Locomotion Performance

1977 • 26 citations

Adaptation to the Tumor-Enhancing Effects of Stress

1981 • 21 citations

Social cognitions, personality and chronic pain

1983 • 16 citations

Psychological factors in cardiovascular disorders

1982 • 13 citations

Experimental psychosomatic disease states in monkeys

1964 • 10 citations

Intraluminal chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard in simulated cancer of the colon in the rat

1964 • 5 citations