书目名称 | The Psychology of Physical Symptoms | 编辑 | James W. Pennebaker | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Physical symptoms are fascinating phenomena to examine. We all experience them, use them as signals to guide our behavior, and usually assume that they accurately represent underlying physiological activity. At the same time, we implicitly know that bodily sensations are often vague, ambiguous, and subject to a variety of interpretations. It is not surprising, then, that there is often a disparity between what we think is going on in our bodies and what is objectively occurring. In short, phenomena such as physical symptoms are the stuff of psychology. My own research into physical symptoms started by accident several years ago. In a hastily devised experiment dealing with the effects of noise on behavior, I had to write a post-experimental questionnaire that would be long enough to allow the experimenter time to calibrate some equipment for a later portion of the study. I included some physical symptoms on the questionnaire as fillers. The experiment was a total failure, with the exception of the symptom reports. People‘s perceptions of symptoms were easily influenced by our manipulations, even though their actual physiological state had not changed. And so began the present inqui | 出版日期 | Textbook 1982 | 关键词 | Emotion; Psychosomatische Erkrankung; perception; personality; psychology | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8196-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-8198-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4613-8196-9 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1982 |
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