PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes -Mental Calculation, Street-Level Characters Of The Wire, Common Cold
12 Dec 2011
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Social psychology in action 2 social psychology and health. We need to consider the amount of stress in our lives and how we deal with that stress. A great deal of anecdotal evidence indicates that stress can affect the body in dramatic ways. A new zealand woman eats a piece of fruit and then learns that is cam efrom forbidden supply reserved for chief. The next day she dies even though it s a perfectly okay piece of fruit. A man in africa has breakfast with a friend, eats heartily, and goes on his way. A year later, he learns that his friend made the breakfast from a wild hen, a food strictly forbidden in the man"s culture. The man immediately begins to tremble and is dead within 24 hours. An australian man"s health deteoriates after a witch doctor casts a spell on him. He recovers only when the witch doctor removes the spell.
