Parenting decisions
Pasteur, Louis
Paxil
Perfectionism
Persistence (see Conscientiousness)
Personality
agreeableness
battle roles and
careers and
cheerfulness
chronic disease and
conscientiousness
disease-prone
marriage satisfaction and
moodiness
neurotic
perfectionism
resilient
self-assessment
self-healing
sociability
suicide and
widowhood and
worrying
Person-centered focus
Perturbation
Pessimism
Pesticides
Peterson, Chris
Pets
Pharmaceutical companies
Phlegm
Phlegmatic personality
Physical activity
Physicians, overspecialization of
Placebos
Playtime
Polypills
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Prayer
Prehypertension
Prenatal alcohol exposure
Promise of Youth, The (Terman)
Prozac
Prudence (see Conscientiousness)
Radioactivity
Reading
Realistic occupations
Red Cross
Regrets
Reliability
Religion
Remarriage
Research traps and biases
Resilience
Responsibility
Rheumatism
Risky families
Rockefeller University
Running
Sadness
Salinger, J. D.
Sanguine personality
School (see Education)
School Sisters of Notre Dame
Schwartz, Joseph
Sciatica
Seldin, Dan
Self-assessment quizzes
catastrophizing
conscientiousness
early school
emotional sociability
job passion and accomplishment
life satisfaction
marital happiness
masculinity and femininity
neuroticism
physical activity
religiosity
sociability
social support networks
traumatic experiences
Self-control
Self-criticism
Self-healing personality
Self-interest research biases
Self-report biases
Seligman, Martin
Semmelweis, Ignaz
Serotonin
Sexual activity and satisfaction
Sexual orientation
Sexual promiscuity
Shneidman, Edwin
Shyness
Singlehood
Sleep disruptions
Smoking
Snow, C. P.
Snowdon, David
Sociability
emotional
Social occupations
Social Readjustment Rating Scale
Social relations
Socioeconomic status
Stanford University
Steadily married group
Stress
Strokes (see Cardiovascular disease)
Substance abuse
Sugar pills
Suicide
Supernatural forces
Taga, Keiko
Television viewing
Ten Commandments
Terman, Anna Belle Minton
Terman, Lewis
Thought stopping and replacement
Time magazine
Tinker Bell Principle
Tomlinson-Keasey, Carol
Toxins, exposure to
Traumatic experiences
Truthfulness
Tuberculosis
Tucker, Joan
Twain, Mark
Type A behavior pattern
Vaccines
Vaillant, George
Veterans
Vie, Loryana
Vietnam War
Violent death
accidents
homicide
suicide
Viruses
Vitamins
Von Ribbentrop, Joachim
Wellness
Widowhood
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES)
Women’s Army Corps (WAC)
Women’s Health Initiative
Wordsworth, William
Work satisfaction (see Careers)
World War II,
Worrying
X-rays
Yale University
Yellow bile
Zoloft
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