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Nate Ashton: About Me and Thesis Description

Hello! My name is Nate Ashton, and I am a sophomore studying Health Policy and Administration at the Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College. Originally, I am from Pittsburgh,...

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unpredictability is…not pleasant

This week was mostly a standard week for me, pretty normal.  I worked Monday-Friday from 5AM until 1PM, took care of my three dogs, cooked dinner a few nights, ordered pizza a couple nights, worked on...

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What are the health effects of disclosure?

Citation Smyth , J., Pennebaker, J., & Arigo, D. (2012). What are the health effects of disclosure? In A. Baum & T. Revenson (Eds.), Handbook of Health Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 175-192). New...

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The social context of the relationship between glycemic control and...

Objective: Individuals with type 2 diabetes and depressive symptoms have poorer diabetes outcomes than those with diabetes alone, and there is need for improved understanding of the relationship...

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(Not) The Way of the Health Warrior

This post is supposed to talk about the things we do that help us “age successfully”, beating the curve and making it into the upper tail on tests of physical health and cognitive abilities (Sapolsky,...

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Social constraints are associated with negative psychological and physical...

Losing a loved one is a normative life event, yet there is great variability in subsequent interpersonal experiences and adjustment. The Social-Cognitive Processing (SCP) model suggests that social...

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The strength of family ties: Perceptions of network relationship quality and...

Background: Although the quality of one’s social relationships has been linked to important physical health outcomes, less work has been conducted examining family and friends that differ in their...

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