Preface

Prologue General Introduction: Issues That Make a Lifetime of Research come Together

I STARTING OUT WITH A BANG: MY DISSERTATION

II WHY PSYCHOLOGISTS ARGUE: PERENNIAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES

Section A. The Revolt of the Late 1940s and 1950s: Individual Differences in Motivation and Defense Influence Perception

Hunger and Perception

Lazarus, R. S.

Yousem, H.

Arenberg, D. (1953). Journal of Personality, 21, 312-328.

Is There a Mechanism of Perceptual Defense? A Reply to Postman, Bronson, and Gropper

Lazarus, R. S. (1954). Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 49, 396-398.

Personality Dynamics and Auditory Perceptual Recognition

Lazarus, R. S.

Erickson, C. W.

Fonda, C. P. (1951). Journal of Personality, 19, 471-482.

Perceptual Defense and Projective Tests

Eriksen, C. W.

Lazarus, R. S. (1952). Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 47, 302-308.

Effects of Failure Stress Upon Skilled Performance

Lazarus, R. S.

Eriksen, C. W. (1952). Journal of Experimental Psychology, 43, 100-105.

Section B. The Ancient Greeks Started It: Relations Among Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion

Cognitive and Coping Processes in Emotion

Lazarus, R. S. (1974). In B. Weiner (Ed.), Cognitive views of human motivation (pp. 21-32). New York: Academic Press.

Section C. The Unconscious

Autonomic Discrimination Without Awareness: A Study of Subception

Lazarus, R. S.

McCleary, R. A. (1951). Psychological Review, 58, 113-122.

III THE TRANSITION FROM LABORATORY TO FIELD RESEARCH

Section A. Arousing Stress by Motion Picture Films

A Laboratory Approach to the Dynamics of Psychological Stress

Lazarus, R. S. (1964). American Psychologist, 19, 400-411.

A Cross-Cultural Study of Stress-Reaction Patterns in Japan

Lazarus, R. S.

Tomita, M.

Opton, E. M. Jr.

Kodama, M. (1966). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 4, 622-633.

Section B. An Early Field Study

Active Coping Processes, Coping Dispositions, and Recovery From Surgery

Cohen, F.

Lazarus, R. S. (1973). Psychosomatic Medicine, 35, 375-389.

Section C. Stress and Coping Theory and Research

The Stress and Coping Paradigm

Lazarus, R. S. (1981). In C. Eisdorfer

D. Cohen

P. Maxim (Eds.), Models for clinical psychopathology (pp. 177-214). New York: Spectrum.

IV THE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF STRESS AND COPING

Section A. Focus on Denial

The Costs and Benefits of Denial

Lazarus, R. S. (1983a). In S. Breznitz (Ed.), The denial of stress (pp. 1-30). New York: International Universities Press.

The Trivialization of Distress

Lazarus, R. S. (1983b). In B. L. Hammonds

C. J. Scheirer (Eds.), Psychology and Health: APA Master Lecture Series, 3, 125-144.

Section B. Focus on Daily Hassles

Puzzles in the Study of Daily Hassles

Lazarus, R. S. (1984). Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 7, 375-389

Section C. Focus on Psychotherapy

Cognition and Emotion From the RET Viewpoint

Lazarus, R. S. (1989a). In M. E. Bernard

R. DiGiuseppe (Eds.), Inside Rational-Emotive Therapy: A critical appraisal of the theory and therapy of Albert Ellis (pp. 47-68). New York: Academic Press.

Section D. Focus on Job Stress

Psychological Stress in the Workplace

Lazarus, R. S. (1991). In P. L. Perrewe (Ed.), Handbook on job stress: A special issue of the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 6, 1-20.

Section E. Focus on War and Peace

The Psychology of Stress and Coping: Israel as a Great Natural Laboratory

Lazarus, R. S. (1986). In C. D. Spielberger

I. G. Sarason (Eds.), Stress and Anxiety, Vol. 10: A sourcebook of theory and research (pp. 399-418). Washington, DC: Hemisphere.

V EXPANDING STRESS AND COPING TO THE EMOTIONS

Section A. The Utility of the Emotions in the Study of Adaptation

From Psychological Stress to the Emotions: A History of Changing Outlooks

Lazarus, R. S. (1993). Annual Review of Psychology (pp. 1-21). Palo Alto, CA: Annual reviews.

Section B. Coping in Emotion

Coping Theory and Research: Past, Present, and Future

Lazarus, R. S. (1993). Psychosomatic Medicine, 55, 234-247.

Epilogue

References

Author Index

Subject Index