Chapter 10: Emotions and Health
Chapter Outline
How Are Emotions Adaptive?
- Facial Expressions Communicate Emotion
- Emotions Serve Cognitive Functions
- Emotions Strengthen Interpersonal Relations
- Emotions Have a Subjective Component
- Emotions Have a Physiological Component
- Emotions Have a Cognitive Component
- People Regulate Their Moods
- Emotions Are Associated with Autonomic Activity
- The Amygdala and the Prefrontal Cortex Are Involved in Emotion
- Emotion Systems Are Lateralized in the Brain
- There Are Sex Differences in Response to Stressors
- The General Adaptation Syndrome Is a Bodily Response to Stress
- People Encounter Stress in Daily Life
- Stress Affects Health
- Coping Is a Process
- Obesity Results from a Genetic Predisposition and Overeating
- Restrictive Dieting Can Be Problematic
- Smoking Often Begins in Childhood
- People Do Not Get Enough Exercise
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