The Role of Emotion on Pathways to Positive Health

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What Good Are Positive Emotions?

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Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

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Effects of optimism on psychological and physical well-being: Theoretical overview and empirical update

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Emotion knowledge: Further exploration of a prototype approach.

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Depression Following Myocardial Infarction

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The Role of Social Relations in Health Promotion

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Emotion, Disclosure, and Health

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Well-Being Therapy: Conceptual and Technical Issues

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Social Ties and Support and Neuroendocrine Function: the MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

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Response artifacts in the measurement of subjective well-being

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Health effects of emotional disclosure in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

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SOCIAL ISOLATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: AN ATHEROSCLEROTIC PATHWAY?

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Positive expectations predict health after heart transplantation.

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Psychosomatic Medicine: Emerging Trends and Perspectives

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Introduction to the special section on the structure of emotion.

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Stress Responses in Low‐Status Jobs and Their Relationship to Health Risks: Musculoskeletal Disorders

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Psychosocial factors and immunity in nonhuman primates: a review.

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Effects of Psychosocial Treatment in Prolonging Cancer Survival May Be Mediated by Neuroimmune Pathways

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Paradigm Shift: Why a Focus on Health Is Important

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Psychosocial predictors of natural killer cell mobilization during marital conflict.

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Personality and health.

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Do Negative Emotions Mediate the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Health?

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Static, dynamic, and causative bipolarity of affect.

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Relationship Experiences and Emotional Well-Being

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The typological approach to studying personality.

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The relationship of anger expression to health problems among black americans in a national survey

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Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health: Environmental, Psychosocial, and Physiological Pathways

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Social Context and Other Psychological Influences on the Development of Immunity

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The Quest for Long-Term Health and Happiness: To Play or Not to Play, That Is the Question

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Emotion Knowledge Structures in Close Relationships

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