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Changing Mindsets to Build Cultures of Health SPARQ

WebThe United States ranks #1 in the world in per capita health care spending, but ranks in the bottom half of wealthy nations in life expectancy, infant mortality, …

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Caring Letters Prevent Suicide SPARQ

WebThe letters expressed concern, care, and a desire to stay in contact. For instance, one letter read: Dear John, It has been some time since you were here at the hospital, and we hope things are going well for you. If you …

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Health in the United States: Are Appeals to Choice and …

Webing health and well-being in the United States, we use the framework of the “culture cycle” (Markus & Conner, 2014). Drawing together research from psychology, communication, …

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Americans’ Health Mindsets: Content, Cultural Patterning, and …

Webabout health differently than do middle-class European Americans. For example, researchers find middle-class European American cultures (the cultures of origin and …

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Connect to Health SPARQ

WebConnect to Health. Main content start. September 01, 2014 . The rollout of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA, or "Obamacare") revealed many and large cultural …

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Say 'No' to Smoking by Saying 'Yes' to Planning SPARQ

WebHealth psychologists Mark Conner and Andrea Higgins randomly assigned 1,551 11- and 12-year-old students from England to two different conditions. In the treatment condition, participants read ten facts about the short …

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SPARQ Health Director Crum Discusses Mindsets at the …

WebFebruary 28, 2018. SPARQ Health Director Alia Crum gave her talk, "The science of how mindset transforms the human experience," at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2018. She explained …

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Heal Past Traumas by Writing About Them SPARQ

WebDetails. James Pennebaker, a psychologist, and his colleagues randomly assigned 50 healthy college students to write for 20 minutes a day, 4 days in a row, about either the most traumatic events in their lives or mundane …

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'Opt Out' Policies Increase Organ Donation SPARQ

WebBased on these findings, the researchers conclude that changing policies so that the United States became an opt-out country, rather than an opt-in country, would change organ …

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Rethinking Stress: The Role of Mindsets in Determining the

Webas performance and productivity, health and wellbeing, and learn-ing and growth (referred to as a “stress-is-enhancing mindset”) or holds the belief that stress has …

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Read Health Director Alia Crum and Kari Leibowitz's NYT Op-Ed …

WebRead SPARQ Health Director Alia Crum and Kari Leibowitz's New York Times op-ed on making stress work for you. Explore our Rethinking Stress toolkit based on …

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Disclosure of Traumas and Immune Function: Health …

Webtreatment for health problems are discussed. There is little doubt that psychotherapy reduces subjective distress and yields positive behavioral outcomes. In recent years, a …

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SPARQ 'Connect to Health' Study in the News SPARQ

WebState Has Good Care If You Can Get It, According to Text-Message Study. By David Gorn, California Healthline, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Low-income …

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Health Psychology

WebHealth Statistics, 2016), the question of why people choose high-calorie, low-nutrient restaurant foods is one of great importance to public health. In response to public health …

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SPARQtools Expands With Toolkits for Stressing Less and Eating …

WebOctober 3, 2018. SPARQ added two toolkits to SPARQtools that will help people make healthier food choices and improve how they experience stress. The Edgy Veggies …

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Empowering Parents Reduces Abuse SPARQ

WebThe researchers found that fewer parents in the cognitive training condition (4%) physically abused their children than did parents in the home visit condition (23%) or the control …

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When Students Feel They Belong, They Thrive SPARQ

WebThey first randomly assigned half of the 92 study participants (the belonging condition) to read survey results showing that most first-year students at their school, regardless of …

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Do Messages about Health Risks Threaten the Self

Webdecrease the defen sive responses to the health infor ma - tion. Indeed, the research pre sented in this arti cle sug - gests that affirm ing one’s self-image by mak ing salient impor …

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Written Emotional Expression: Effect Sizes, Outcome Types, …

Websion task and subsequent health. This writing task was found to lead to significantly improved health outcomes in healthy participants. Health was enhanced in 4 outcome …

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