Rethinking stress: the role of mindsets in determining the stress response.

By A. Crum, Peter Salovey, Shawn Achor. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2013

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Reappraising Stress Arousal Improves Performance and Reduces Evaluation Anxiety in Classroom Exam Situations (2016, background): “Notably, stress reappraisal methods are not aimed at eliminating or dampening stress arousal (i.e., it does not encourage calm-ness) but instead focuses on changing the type of stress response (see also, Brooks, 2014; Crum, Salovey, & Achor, 2013).”
Turning their Pain to Gain: Charismatic Leader Influence on Follower Stress Appraisal and Job Performance (2016, methodology): “We draw from recent research on the management of mindsets and meaning (Crum et al., 2013; Piccolo & Colquitt, 2006) to propose that charismatic leaders, by managing the meaning of stressors, may have an impact on the appraisal of the stressor as challenging or hindering.”
Effects of a one-shot growth mindset intervention on beliefs about intelligence and achievement goals (2018, background): “Again, these intervention studies reported significant changes in at least some participants, measured anywhere from two days (Crum et al., 2013) to three years (Walton & Cohen, 2011) post-intervention.”
Review on Psychological Stress Detection Using Biosignals (2019, background): “However, there are also studies supporting the view that under certain circumstances, stress can have positive effects on the immune response [16] and that the impact of stress on one’s health and performance can vary depending on the person’s mindset regarding stress [17].”