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Also known as dispositions; the particular characteristics or structural elements of personality that predispose a person to respond in certain ways. Any distinctive attribute or state that is passed down through inheritance, dictated by one or more genes. Examples of genetic traits encompass eye color like blue or brown, skin tone ranging from dark to…

Theories that suggest that individuals happiness levels are determined by how they view their circumstances.  

A characteristic of an altered or meditative state in which normal perception of time is lost.  

Appraisals in Lazarus’s model that the events have potential to result in harm or loss.  

Represented in Fredrickson’s broaden-and build model, the range of potential cognitions and behaviors available to a person.  

The most common type of headache, characterized by head pain that often has corollary pain in the neck, back, or other related muscle areas. A throbbing sensation that imparts a sense of weight on the cranium; a prevalent variety of head discomfort.  

Taylor’s theory that biobehavioral mechanisms influenced by oxytocin influence women toward engaging in affiliative behaviors when under stress.  

A syndrome characterized by myofascial pain, particularly in the temporomandibular joint and the muscles involved in chewing.  

The pressure to adapt to serious and fundamental changes in job roles that are driven by new technology; may also relate to general difficulty adapting to new technology.  

Also known as CD8 cells; lymphocytic cells that are components of the adaptive immune system that specialize in lysing unwanted cells, especially the body’s own cells that are infected with virus or otherwise compromised to become tumor or cancer cells.