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| The study, assessment, and treatment of people with psychological difficulties. |
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| The tendency of mildly depressed people to make accurate rather than self-serving judgments, attributions, and predictions. |
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| One's habitual way of explaining life events. A negative, pessimistic, depressive explanatory style attributes failure to stable, global, and internal causes. |
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| An interdisciplinary field that integrates and applies behavioral and medical knowledge about health and disease. |
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| The study of the psychological roots of health and illness. Offers psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. |
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