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How Positive Emotions Build Physical Health
- Bethany E. Kok, Kimberly A. Coffey, +5 authors B. Fredrickson
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 6 May 2013
The mechanisms underlying the association between positive emotions and physical health remain a mystery. We hypothesize that an upward-spiral dynamic continually reinforces the tie between positive… Expand
Upward spirals of the heart: Autonomic flexibility, as indexed by vagal tone, reciprocally and prospectively predicts positive emotions and social connectedness
- Bethany E. Kok, B. Fredrickson
- Psychology, Medicine
- Biological Psychology
- 1 December 2010
Vagal tone (VT), an index of autonomic flexibility, is linked to social and psychological well-being. We posit that the association between VT and well-being reflects an "upward spiral" in which… Expand
Is meditation always relaxing? Investigating heart rate, heart rate variability, experienced effort and likeability during training of three types of meditation.
- Anna-Lena Lumma, Bethany E. Kok, T. Singer
- Psychology, Medicine
- International journal of psychophysiology…
- 1 July 2015
Meditation is often associated with a relaxed state of the body. However, meditation can also be regarded as a type of mental task and training, associated with mental effort and physiological… Expand
Phenomenological Fingerprints of Four Meditations: Differential State Changes in Affect, Mind-Wandering, Meta-Cognition, and Interoception Before and After Daily Practice Across 9 Months of Training
- Bethany E. Kok, T. Singer
- Psychology, Medicine
- Mindfulness
- 19 August 2016
Despite increasing interest in the effects of mental training practices such as meditation, there is much ambiguity regarding whether and to what extent the various types of mental practice have… Expand
The ReSource Project: Background, design, samples, and measurements
- T. Singer, Bethany E. Kok, Boris Bornemann, S. Zurborg, M. Bolz, Christina Bochow
- Psychology
- 2016
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Estimating and Visualizing Nonlinear Relations Among Latent Variables: A Semiparametric Approach
- J. Pek, S. Sterba, Bethany E. Kok, D. Bauer
- Computer Science, Medicine
- Multivariate behavioral research
- 31 July 2009
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Meditation and Health: The Search for Mechanisms of Action
- Bethany E. Kok, Christian E. Waugh, B. Fredrickson
- Psychology
- 2013
Psychological interest in the impact of mental states on biological functioning is growing rapidly, driving a need for new methods for inducing mental states that last long enough, and are… Expand
Erratum to: Phenomenological Fingerprints of Four Meditations: Differential State Changes in Affect, Mind-Wandering, Meta-Cognition, and Interoception Before and After Daily Practice Across 9 Months…
- Bethany E. Kok, T. Singer
- 2017
Upward Spiral Between Positive Emotions and Vagal Tone How Positive Emotions Build Physical Health : Perceived Positive Social Connections Account for the
- Bethany E. Kok, Kimberly A. Coffey, +5 authors B. Fredrickson
- 2013
The mechanisms underlying the association between positive emotions and physical health remain a mystery. We hypothesize that an upward-spiral dynamic continually reinforces the tie between positive… Expand
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Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training
- V. Engert, Bethany E. Kok, I. Papassotiriou, G. Chrousos, T. Singer
- Psychology, Medicine
- Science Advances
- 1 October 2017
Social but not attention-based mental training reduces cortisol reactivity to psychosocial stress. Psychosocial stress is a public health burden in modern societies. Chronic stress–induced disease… Expand