Entries by Guest Blogger

Asher Guest Blogs: Warming up the “cold shoulder”

This Guest Blog Post is from Asher King Abramson, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students: Who knew the metaphor was true? According to this social interaction research from the Netherlands, when people feel lonely or excluded, the physical temperature of their skin actually drops! One reason for this is a protective immune response called vasoconstriction, […]

Ken Guest Blogs: Work yourself into a heart attack

This Guest Blog Post is from Ken Huang, one of Dr. T’s Health Psychology students: This NPR article discusses some striking long-term implications from stress. Researchers looked at data from 200,000 participants from 13 different studies over an average of 7.5 years and found that those who reported having a stressful job had a 23% higher heart […]