Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joining the growing nationwide divestiture movement. Harvard can lend its prestige and leadership to the various efforts to affect corporate behavior, and to end South African apartheid. Not only will divestiture contribute toward corporate withdrawal, it will also influence public opinion and governmental action against apartheid here and in South Africa...
...person may need psychotherapy to get at the roots of his Type A behavior, while another needs nothing more than regular exercise and vacations. Just as responses to stress vary widely according to age, sex, temperament and other factors, so do the requirements for treatment to offset...
...intramural research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). "Where we fall down is in our ability to mobilize for recurrent stressful episodes." Today the physiology of stress is being worked out in extraordinary detail. Says Neurochemist Jack Barchas of Stanford: "We have learned that even subtle behavior can markedly influence biochemistry...
Such examples have convinced stress scholars that far more important than the trials and tribulations in one's life is how one deals with them. Consequently, much research into stress and preventive medicine has focused on what psychologists call "hardiness" or coping behavior. Certain population groups are known to enjoy remarkable good health and longevity...
...recent years doctors have come to recognize another psychological factor that drastically increases an individual's susceptibility to heart attacks and other stress-related illnesses: Type A behavior. First identified by San Francisco Cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, Type A has two main components, both of which can be recognized by giving standardized personality tests or conducting careful interviews with the patients. Says Friedman: "First, there is the tendency to try to accomplish too many things in too little time. Second, there is free-floating hostility. These people are irritated by trivial things; they exhibit signs of struggle...