This article uses a multilevel approach to review the literature on interventions with promise
to reduce social stigma and its consequences for population health. Three levels of an …

People have a basic need to maintain the integrity of the self, a global sense of personal
adequacy. Events that threaten self-integrity arouse stress and self-protective defenses that …

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) has already achieved great popularity as a method for
personal development and excellence. It is already used by successful educators …

From vaccination refusal to climate change denial, antiscience views are threatening
humanity. When different individuals are provided with the same piece of scientific evidence …

Welcome to the third edition of The Psychology of Attitudes & Attitude Change. As you would
expect, this edition contains many new developments. As a starting point, Bas Verplanken …

Objectives: Self-affirmation (induced by reflecting upon important values, attributes, or social
relations) appears to reduce defensive resistance to health-risk information and increase …

Everyday intuitions suggest full conscious control of behavior, but evidence of unconscious
causation and automaticity has sustained the contrary view that conscious thought has little …

Two longitudinal field experiments in a middle school examined how a brief “values
affirmation” affects students' psychological experience and the relationship between …

Health communications can be an effective way to increase positive health behaviors and
decrease negative health behaviors; however, those at highest risk are often most defensive …

Identity refers to how people answer the question,“Who are you?” This question may be
posed and answered explicitly or implicitly, at a personal or a collective level, to others or to …