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Emotional states and physical healthP Salovey
Department of Psychology, Yale University, P O Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Am Psychol 55:110-21. 2000..As anticipated by the Greek physician Hippocrates, positive emotions and healthy outcomes may be linked through multiple pathways...
Bridging the digital divide by increasing computer and cancer literacy: community technology centers for head-start parents and familiesPeter Salovey
Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
J Health Commun 14:228-45. 2009....- Matching health messages to monitor-blunter coping styles to motivate screening mammographyPamela Williams-Piehota
Health, Emotions, and Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA
Health Psychol 24:58-67. 2005..Messages matched to a woman's monitor-blunter coping style encouraged mammography after 6 months more effectively than mismatched messages and were significantly more effective for blunters but not for monitors... - Need for cognition and message complexity in motivating fruit and vegetable intake among callers to the cancer information servicePamela Williams-Piehota
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Health Commun 19:75-84. 2006..Although NFC did not predict intake, complex messages were more effective than simple messages in motivating fruit and vegetable consumption 1 and 4 months later... - Shaping perceptions to motivate healthy behavior: the role of message framingA J Rothman
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Psychol Bull 121:3-19. 1997..Finally, the authors discuss the cognitive and affective processes that may mediate the influence of framed information on judgment and behavior... - Static, dynamic, and causative bipolarity of affectD P Green
Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8209, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 76:856-67. 1999..The experience and influence of pleasant and unpleasant affect may occur along bipolar lines even if the sources of these feelings are understood as physiologically separable systems with distinct neurological loci... - Abstract and concrete self-evaluative goalsA L Freitas
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 80:410-24. 2001..These results suggest that the level of abstraction at which people construe self-evaluative situations can influence their feedback preferences... - Relating emotional abilities to social functioning: a comparison of self-report and performance measures of emotional intelligenceMarc A Brackett
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:780-95. 2006..Implications for analyzing how emotional abilities contribute to social behavior are discussed, as is the importance of incorporating gender into theoretical frameworks and study designs... 
Nicotine dependence as a moderator of message framing effects on smoking cessation outcomesLisa M Fucito
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Ann Behav Med 39:311-7. 2010..Nicotine dependence as a potential moderator of message framing effects on actual smoking outcomes among treatment-seeking smokers remains to be determined...- Perceived risks and benefits of smoking cessation: gender-specific predictors of motivation and treatment outcomeSherry A McKee
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Substance Abuse Center CMHC, 34 Park Street, S 211, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Addict Behav 30:423-35. 2005.... - Comparing gain- and loss-framed messages for smoking cessation with sustained-release bupropion: a randomized controlled trialBenjamin A Toll
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 21:534-44. 2007..These data suggest that gain-framed messages may be more persuasive than loss-framed messages in promoting early success in smoking cessation for participants who are engaged in treatment... - How to word effective messages about smoking and oral health: emphasize the benefits of quittingSherry A McKee
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Substance Abuse Center CMHC, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
J Dent Educ 68:569-73. 2004..Information about oral health and smoking typically emphasizes the dangers of continued smoking. This study found that smokers are more receptive to information that emphasizes the benefits of quitting... - Message framing for smoking cessation: the interaction of risk perceptions and genderBenjamin A Toll
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT 06511, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 10:195-200. 2008..These findings suggest that message framing interventions for smoking cessation should consider the influence of gender and risk perceptions associated with quitting on the effectiveness of framed interventions... - Confirmatory factor analysis of the Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal ScaleBenjamin A Toll
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 21:216-25. 2007..Confirmatory factor analyses of change scores showed that the MNWS symptoms cohere as a syndrome over time. Future investigators should report a total score using all of the items from the MNWS... - Measuring emotional intelligence with the Mayer-Salovery-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)Marc A Brackett
Yale University, USA
Psicothema 18:34-41. 2006..Findings regarding the low correlations between MSCEIT scores and self-report measures of EI also are presented. In the conclusion the authors' provide potential directions for future research on emotional intelligence... - Randomized trial: Quitline specialist training in gain-framed vs standard-care messages for smoking cessationBenjamin A Toll
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 1 Long Wharf Dr, Box 18, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 102:96-106. 2010.... - Beliefs and attitudes about bupropion: implications for medication adherence and smoking cessation treatmentLisa M Fucito
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 23:373-9. 2009..These findings provide preliminary support that positive beliefs and attitudes about bupropion are associated with positive attitudes toward quitting, better treatment adherence, and potentially better treatment response... - A preliminary investigation of naltrexone augmentation of bupropion to stop smoking with less weight gainBenjamin A Toll
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Addict Behav 33:173-9. 2008.... - Message framing and pap test utilization among women attending a community health clinicSusan E Rivers
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8205, USA
J Health Psychol 10:65-77. 2005.... - Using message framing to motivate HIV testing among low-income, ethnic minority womenAnne Marie Apanovitch
Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8205, USA
Health Psychol 22:60-7. 2003..Among women who perceived the outcome of HIV testing as relatively uncertain, gain- and loss-framed videos led to similar rates of self-reported testing, with some advantage for the loss-framed message... - Promoting fruit and vegetable intake through messages tailored to individual differences in regulatory focusAmy E Latimer
Department of Psychology, Yale University, P O Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Ann Behav Med 35:363-9. 2008..Researchers must identify strategies to optimize the persuasiveness of messages used in public education campaigns encouraging fruit and vegetable (FV) intake... - Promoting participation in physical activity using framed messages: an application of prospect theoryAmy E Latimer
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Br J Health Psychol 13:659-81. 2008..We compared the effectiveness of gain-, loss-, and mixed-framed messages for promoting moderate to vigorous physical activity... - Beliefs about mood moderate the relationship of stress to illness and symptom reportingS L Goldman
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Psychosom Res 41:115-28. 1996..The findings suggest that a person's general manner of evaluating or appraising mood is an important moderator of the relation between distress and symptom and illness reporting... - The effects of message framing and ethnic targeting on mammography use among low-income womenT R Schneider
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8205, USA
Health Psychol 20:256-66. 2001..The advantage of loss-framed, multicultural messages was especially apparent for Anglo women and Latinas but not for African American women. These effects were stronger after 6 months than after 12 months... - Motivating cancer prevention and early detection behaviors using psychologically tailored messagesAmy E Latimer
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8205, USA
J Health Commun 10:137-55. 2005..This line of research provides evidence for the utility of psychological tailoring as a health communication strategy and direction for developing effective health messages in a variety of settings... - Emotional intelligence and social interactionPaulo N Lopes
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:1018-34. 2004..In both studies, the main findings remained statistically significant after controlling for Big Five personality traits... - Measuring emotional intelligence with the MSCEIT V2.0John D Mayer
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, USA
Emotion 3:97-105. 2003..g., emotional perception in faces). The MSCEIT achieved reasonable reliability, and confirmatory factor analysis supported theoretical models of EI. These findings help clarify issues raised in earlier articles published in Emotion... - Emotional Intelligence predicts individual differences in social exchange reasoningDeidre L Reis
Department of Psychology, Yale University, Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Neuroimage 35:1385-91. 2007..The results are the first to directly suggest that EI is mediated in part by mechanisms supporting social reasoning and validate a new approach to investigating EI in terms of more basic information processing mechanisms... - Emotional intelligence as a standard intelligenceJ D Mayer
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, USA
Emotion 1:232-42. 2001..They then present arguments for the reasonableness of measuring EI as an ability, indicate that correct answers exist, and summarize recent data suggesting that such measures are, indeed, reliable... - Tailoring messages to individual differences in monitoring-blunting styles to increase fruit and vegetable intakePamela Williams-Piehota
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 41:398-405. 2009..MBCS refers to the tendency to either attend to and amplify, or distract oneself from and minimize threatening information... - Sex differences in jealousy: evolutionary mechanism or artifact of measurement?David DeSteno
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:1103-16. 2002..Larsen, D. Westen, & J. Semmelroth, 1992; D. M. Buss et al., 1999) likely represents a measurement artifact resulting from a format-induced effortful decision strategy and not an automatic, sex-specific response shaped by evolution... - Constraining accommodative homunculi in evolutionary explorations of jealousy: a reply to Barrett et al. (2006)David DeSteno
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:519-23. 2006.... - Emotion regulation abilities and the quality of social interactionPaulo N Lopes
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Emotion 5:113-8. 2005..negative peer nominations, and reciprocal friendship nominations. These relationships remained statistically significant after controlling for the Big Five personality traits as well as verbal and fluid intelligence... - Casting health messages in terms of responsibility for dietary change: increasing fruit and vegetable consumptionPamela Williams-Piehota
Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 36:114-20. 2004..Health messages might be more effective over the longer term if they are designed to emphasize the importance of social responsibility, although further study is needed to confirm the robustness of these findings... - Matching health messages to information-processing styles: need for cognition and mammography utilizationPamela Williams-Piehota
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA
Health Commun 15:375-92. 2003..The differential influence of these brief, tailored communications diminished after 12 months, however... - Targeting or tailoring?Kristina L Schmid
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA
Mark Health Serv 28:32-7. 2008 - Asymmetry in judgments of moral blame and praise: the role of perceived metadesiresDavid Pizarro
Yale University, USA
Psychol Sci 14:267-72. 2003..Individuals assume that an agent would embrace an uncontrollable positive impulse, and reject an uncontrollable negative impulse... - Emotional intelligence: new ability or eclectic traits?John D Mayer
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Am Psychol 63:503-17. 2008..EI--conceptualized as an ability--is an important variable both conceptually and empirically, and it shows incremental validity for predicting socially relevant outcomes... - Relation of an ability measure of emotional intelligence to personalityDavid R Caruso
Work Life Strategies, New Canaan, Connecticut 06840, USA
J Pers Assess 79:306-20. 2002..Emotional intelligence was measured reliably and was relatively independent of traditionally defined personality traits, supporting the discriminant validity of the emotional intelligence construct... - The effectiveness of gain-framed messages for encouraging disease prevention behavior: is all hope lost?Amy E Latimer
Queen s University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Health Commun 12:645-9. 2007..We suggest that the future of message framing is promising with newly emerging approaches to increasing message effectiveness... - On emotionally intelligent time travel: individual differences in affective forecasting abilityElizabeth W Dunn
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:85-93. 2007..Emotion Management, a subcomponent of EI, emerged as the strongest predictor of forecasting ability... - Emotional intelligence and social and academic adaptation to schoolJosé M Mestre
University of Cadiz, Spain
Psicothema 18:112-7. 2006..Self-perceived emotional intelligence was unrelated to these criteria. These findings provide partial support for hypotheses that emotional abilities are associated with indicators of social and academic adaptation to school... - Spanish version of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Version 2.0: reliabilities, age and gender differencesNatalio Extremera
University of Malaga, Spain
Psicothema 18:42-8. 2006..Finally, these results are discussed in light of the limitations of the present study, the implications of the use of this new instrument, and the need for future research on emotional intelligence... - The NCI Digital Divide Pilot Projects: implications for cancer educationGary L Kreps
Department of Communications, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 4444, USA
J Cancer Educ 22:S56-60. 2007..These demonstration research projects suggested effective new strategies for using communication technologies to educate underserved populations about cancer prevention, control, and care... - Sex differences in stress responses: social rejection versus achievement stressLaura R Stroud
Brown University Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:318-27. 2002..Women's greater reactivity to rejection stress may contribute to the increased rates of affective disorders in women... - Evidence that emotional intelligence is related to job performance and affect and attitudes at workPaulo N Lopes
University of Surrey, UK
Psicothema 18:132-8. 2006..With few exceptions, these associations remained statistically significant after controlling for other predictors, one at a time, including age, gender, education, verbal ability, the Big Five personality traits, and trait affect...
Research Grants
- PROMOTING CANCER PREVENTION/CONTROL WITH MESSAGE FRAMINGPeter Salovey; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- PROMOTING CANCER PREVENTION/CONTROL WITH MESSAGE FRAMINGPeter Salovey; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- PROMOTING CANCER PREVENTION/CONTROL WITH MESSAGE FRAMINGPeter Salovey; Fiscal Year: 2005..It is our hope that findings from this line of research will allow us to articulate clear principles for developing especially effective health messages. ..
- PROMOTING CANCER PREVENTION/CONTROL WITH MESSAGE FRAMINGPeter Salovey; Fiscal Year: 1999..The three studies, as a group, address themselves to five hypotheses regarding the influence of message framing on persuasion and behavior change. ..
- PROMOTING CANCER PREVENTION/CONTROL WITH MESSAGE FRAMINGPeter Salovey; Fiscal Year: 2010....