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Robert E. Thayer - The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy, Tension, and Stress - 9780195118056 - V9780195118056
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The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy, Tension, and Stress

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Description for The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy, Tension, and Stress Paperback. This book serves as a guide through scientific research into moods and mood management, revealing which behaviours energize and empower us, and which sabotage our best interests. Everyday Moods: Energy and Tension brings readers understanding of the underlying biology of their daily cycles of energy and tension. Num Pages: 288 pages, line figures and tables. BIC Classification: JM; VFJ; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
Snacks. Sex. Shopping. Whether we realize it or not, all of us have strategies for self-medicating ourselves when we feel threatened or overwhelmed by tension or tiredness. But why do people respond to pressure in such different ways? And what really helps most to reduce tension and increase energy, a brisk ten-minute walk, twenty minutes of meditation, or two hours of watching TV? In this fascinating book, now new in paperback, Robert E. Thayer serves as an expert guide through the latest scientific research into moods and mood management, revealing which behaviours energise and empower us, and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195118056
SKU
V9780195118056
Shipping Time
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About Robert E. Thayer
Robert E. Thayer is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach. A pioneering and highly influential researcher in biopsychology, he is the author of The Biopsychology of Mood and Arousal.

Reviews for The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy, Tension, and Stress
While writers of "pop psychology" books are notorious for passing off their own unsubstantiated notions as scientific fact, Thayer is careful to avoid this trap. The book is readable and easily digestible by nonscientists, while for those who want to know more about the scientific background there is a comprehensive series of notes and full references.
New Scientist
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