Subjective well-being (SWB) is an extremely active area of research with about 170,000
articles and books published on the topic in the past 15 years. Methodological and …

We review evidence on whether subjective well‐being (SWB) can influence health, why it
might do so, and what we know about the conditions where this is more or less likely to …

This meta-analysis reviews 208 laboratory studies of acute psychological stressors and tests
a theoretical model delineating conditions capable of eliciting cortisol responses …

Salivary cortisol is frequently used as a biomarker of psychological stress. However,
psychobiological mechanisms, which trigger the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis …

This review highlights consistent patterns in the literature associating positive affect (PA) and
physical health. However, it also raises serious conceptual and methodological …

Stress and Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions, by William R. Lovallo, is a brief
and accessible examination of psychological stress and its psychophysiological …

This research synthesis integrates findings from 150 experimental, ambulatory and
longitudinal studies that tested the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes …

Although there is marked variation in how people cope with interpersonal loss, there is
growing recognition that most people manage this extremely stressful experience with …

Despite the well-established sex difference in prevalence of many childhood and adolescent
psychopathological conditions, no integrative metatheory of sex differences in …

This randomised controlled experiment tested whether a brief subjective well-being
intervention would have favourable effects on cardiovascular and neuroendocrine function …