Bridging psychology and biology. The analysis of individuals in groups |
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Authors: | Kosslyn Stephen M Cacioppo John T Davidson Richard J Hugdahl Kenneth Lovallo William R Spiegel David Rose Robert |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 830 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. smk@wjh.harvard.edu |
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Abstract: | Biological systems are particularly prone to variation, and the authors argue that such variation must be regarded as important data in its own right. The authors describe a method in which individual differences are studied within the framework of a general theory of the population as a whole and illustrate how this method can be used to address three types of issues: the nature of the mechanisms that give rise to a specific ability, such as mental imagery; the role of psychological or biological mediators of environmental challenges, such as the biological bases for differences in dispositional mood; and the existence of processes that have nonadditive effects with behavioral and physiological variables, such as factors that modulate the response to stress and its effects on the immune response. |
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