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ted in over a dozen languages.
Selye’s general prescription for the individual living in modern society is that “the secret is not to avoid
stress but to ‘do your own thing.’ Do what you like and what you were made to do at your own rate.... Earn
thy neighbor’s love. Be a hoarder of good will to make your environment less stressful.” If this advice
sounds like a combination of biblical saying and medical advice, it is nevertheless typical of Selye’s highly
personal and humanistic style. His own philosophy is what he termed “altruistic selfishness.” He claimed
that in acting in a helpful manner toward others that one is really helping him- or herself by creating a less
stressful environment.
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CHAPTER 13: EMOTION, STRESS, AND HEALTH
TIMELINE
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19141918
World War I was fought.
1920 Physiologist Walter Cannon confirmed that the stress response is part of a unified mind–
body system.
1929 The Great Depression began in America.
19391945
World War II was fought.
1956 Hans Selye published his theory of chronic stress, known today as the General
Adaptation Syndrome.
1960’s Neal Miller found that rats can modify their heart rates if given pleasure through brain
stimulation when their heart rate increases or decreases.
1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
1967 Holmes and Rahe published the Social Readjustment Rating Scale.
1968 Kenneth Cooper extolled the virtues of aerobic exercising, spawning the fitness movement.
1969 The first human moon landing occurred.
1974 Friedman, Meyer, and Rosenhan published Type A Behavior and Your Heart.
1975 Herbert Benson popularized the notion of the relaxation response and its role in dealing
successfully with stress.
1979 Albert Ellis and Robert Harper published A New Guide to Rational Living, emphasizing the
role of self talk in stress.
1980 Ronald Reagan was elected President.
1980’s Psychoneuroimmunology emerged as a discipline as researchers explored the relationship
between psychological processes, the nervous system, endocrine system, and the immune
system.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READINGS
Atkinson, L., Chisholm, V., Dickens, S., Scott, B., Blackwell, J., & Tam, F. (1995). Cognitive Coping, Affective
Disorders, and Maternal Sensitivity: Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome. Developmental Psychology,
31(4), 668–676. An applied perspective of stress and coping in “real-life” mothers with “real-life”
children.
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