European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living doctors find where theres a will theres a Way by Lee Siegel associated press people Are More Likely to quit smoking or recover quickly from heart attacks if they be Lieve they can do according to several studies that show Sel Confidence improves in order to succeed at whatever people Are they need to develop skills and a Strong belief in their said Stanford University psychologist Albert who organized a symposium on the subject recently at the annual meeting of the american association for the advancement of theres a growing recognition that Peoples health rests heavily in their own hands and in their ability to alter health habits and environmental conditions that impair their Bandura psychologist Carlo Diclemente of the Texas research Institute of mental sciences said his study found that people who were confident they could quit smoking cigarettes were More Likely to do so than people who did not think they could their Confidence seems to be an accurate reflection of where they were in the quitting Diclemente in his two year 957 including smok smokers who thought about recent Lon term quitters and people who resumed answered questionnaires about How confident they were about being Able to give up in All the the key to achieving a goal whether quitting smoking or conquering a phobia was Confidence in the ability to control ones life to improve in the jargon of the this Confidence is called perceived or belief in ones ability to do what is necessary to reach a the concept is different than a general self conf Diclemente for people who have great self confident in their Overall capabilities May Lack Confidence in their ability to quit he Stanford psychiatrist Barr Taylor studied 40 men who suffered uncomplicated heart attacks those without problems such As heart failure or heart pain that would prevent the men from returning to Normal physical the men filled out questionnaires indicating How confident they were in their ability to climb stairs and perform other physical Taylor found the most confident men actually were Able to exercise More strenuously on to recover More quickly and to return to Normal he also found that by running on the men increased their Confidence in their ability to exercise even As Long As they believed they had an impaired they restricted their Bandura Taylor also studied male hear attack Vic Tims whose overprotective wives discouraged them from exercising to their full when the wives either walked on Treadmill themselves or watched their husbands doing the wives gained Confidence that their husbands could exercise without he Lehigh University psychologist Lloyd Williams presented results of studies he said showed that people with or irrational of things such As spi Heights or open were More Likely to Over come their fears if they were taught to be More confident that they could do Stanford researcher Ann Oleary reviewed other research suggesting that people who believe they can control or manage their own pain Are More Likely to Cope it people who suffered pain were Able to control it by diverting their attention to other matters or forming visual images of pleasant experiences or she put on a Happy face by Paul Raeburn associated press the Mere act of putting on an angry face or a disgusted look can trigger the corresponding emotion deep within the researchers have part of the brain that controls the facial mus cles is connected to the lower parts of the brain where the emotions Are thought to said Paul Ekman of the University of California at san by making a you can you can generate Ekman these changes seem to be very while it has always been Clear that emotions can produce characteristic facial the discovery that facial expressions could produce emotions was Star Ekman it could explain How people empathize with one Aneth he it May be a Means by which you feel what others he you see people with an expression on their you put on that expression and you feel the Ekman has found that the effect occurs with disgust and strangely it does not seem to occur with smiles and at least according to research done so Ekman maybe because we smile so its disconnected from the he he the researchers do not yet know whether facial expressions can be used to turn off one emotion by triggering another whether putting on an angry face can counteract for Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin has that different emotions seem to be located in different sides of the he said his studies of brain Waves had shown that positive emotions such As happiness Are located in the frontal portion of the left while negative emotions such As disgust Are located in the right Hemi a Large body of research has shown that verbal abilities tend to be located in the left hemisphere of the brain and spatial and visual faculties in the right but those attributes Are located in the rear portions of each hemisphere and May not have any relation to the apparent segregation of Davidson he has also found that facial expressions correspond ing to emotions Are present from very Early in infants 72 hours old will show the characteristic expression of disgust when Lemon juice is put on their he Ekman said the new research on facial expressions follows More than a decade of research in which scientists proved that facial expressions for Given emotions were the same in Many different cultures All Over the Charles Darwin had suggested 100 years ago that facial expressions had evolved and should therefore be the same but it was not until the 1970s that Darwin hypothesis was confirmed by Ekman and Ekman Ekman has demonstrated the new link be tween expressions and emotions by asking subjects to make certain facial expressions without telling the subjects what emotion those expressions correspond to and measuring physiological changes in the measuring heart breathing the skin temperature on the hands and muscle tension of the fore Arm can reveal whether the appropriate emotion has been he the subjects Are also asked what emotion they and More than 90 percent report feeling the appropriate Ekman these Are the instructions for for example raise the pull them raise the upper eyelids tighten the lower drop the stretch the lips horizontally and hold after a few minutes 90 percent of the subjects Able to perform these movements report feeling Ekman even though Only 3 percent of them Are Able to figure out what emotion Ekman is trying to Erm Bombeck Erma Bombeck is on vacation for two weeks and presents some of her most popular columns of the recent you dont love me How Many times have your kids Laid that one on you and How Many times have As a resisted the urge to Tell them How much when my children Are old enough to under stand the logic that motivates a ill Tell i loved you enough to Bug you about where you were with whom and 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