31st Conference of The European Health Psychology Society: „Innovative ideas in health psychology”

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Health psychology.

A template for a European masters programme in Health Psychology

27 27 ehp volume 14 issue 2 It is not difficult to find good examples of extreme scare tactics in health communication. Cigarette warning labels show images of diseased lungs and open heart surgery, anti-drinking campaigns use vivid images how drinking and driving may result in fatal car accidents, and medical professionals remind obese patients that their eating habit may end up getting them k...

Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology 2004 Winter Conference

The main purpose of the study is to shed light on the effects of the anthropomorphized recommendation agent on the two core processes of online consumer behavior: persuasion and attribution of responsibility. Anthropomorphism is manipulated via the presence versus absence of social cues (e.g, thumbnail photo and personal nouns) in the electronic recommendation agent’s interface. Results of our ...

Health Psychology : a Textbook

Health Psychology: A Textbook has made a major contribution to the teaching and study of this rapidly expanding discipline. Maintaining its strong review of theory and research and its details of behaviours such as smoking, exercise, eating and screening, the third edition has been substantially revised to provide increased coverage of the biological aspects of health and illness. This book now...