Positive affect and health-related neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and inflammatory processes.

By Andrew Steptoe, J. Wardle, Michael Marmot. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2005

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Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well-Being Contributes to Health and Longevity (2011, background): “Steptoe, Wardle, and Marmot (2005) found that positive affect in middle-aged men and women were associated with reduced neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and inflammatory activity.”
Goal Motives, Well-Being, and Physical Health: Happiness and Self-Realization as Psychological Resources Under Challenge (2006, unknown): “In line with prior research (e.g., Ryff et al., 2004; Steptoe et al., 2005 ), happiness was assessed in terms of positive affect.”
How does happiness relate to economic behaviour? A review of the literature (2017, background): “…and Schimmack, 2009 ); it also corelates with such objective variables as brain activity ( Urry et al., 004 ), heart rate ( Shedler et al., 1993; Steptoe et al., 2005 ), physcal stress ( Steptoe et al., 2005 ), Duchenne smiles ( Ekman et al., 990 ), suicide ( Di Tella et al., 2003 ) and…”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “…that the 17 A recent review article by Pressman and Cohen (2005) describes the relationships between affective “style” and physical health; see also Steptoe et al. (2005). underlying construct is stable over time (so that any differences found will be between individuals), and it is arguable to…”
Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales (2013, background): “Life satisfaction scores correlate significantly with physiological variables that are thought to track positive moods (e.g., Urry et al. 2004; Steptoe et al. 2005).”
World happiness report (2012, background): “For representative surveys of these results, see Steptoe et al. (2005) and Diener & Chan (2011).”
The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing (2012, background): “All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2012.04.001 have been validated against neurological evidence (Davidson, 2004), physiological evidence (Steptoe et al., 2005), and a range of behaviours (Lyubomirsky et al., 2005), including suicide (Daly and Wilson, 2009).”
Positive Psychological Well-Being and Mortality: A Quantitative Review of Prospective Observational Studies (2008, background): “Positive well-being has also been related to lower cortisol levels in a number of studies (85,88) and may contribute to reduced risk of cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune-related diseases (43,89,90).”
Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, background): “Finally, given positive emotions’ role in promoting physical health (Kok et al. 2013; Pressman and Cohen 2005; Steptoe et al. 2005), future research should investigate whether positive emotions may also explain the”
Benefit Finding and Physical Health: Positive Psychological Changes and Enhanced Allostasis (2008, background): “For example, individuals who reported higher levels of happiness showed lower plasma fibrinogen responses to experimental stress (Steptoe, Wardle, & Marmot, 2005).”