Change or be changed

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Motivating the unmotivated: how can health behavior be changed in those unwilling to change?

Motivating the unmotivated: how can health behavior be changed in those unwilling to change? Many individuals do not engage in health-promoting behaviors that would confer important health benefits despite research that has shown that engaging in a suite of four health behaviors (physical activity, eating a healthy diet, not smoking, drinking alcohol in moderation) leads to a 11–14 year delay i...

Can Personality Be Changed? The Role of Beliefs in Personality and Change

Using recent research, I argue that beliefs lie at the heart of personality and adaptive functioning and that they give us unique insight into how personality and functioning can be changed. I focus on two classes of beliefs—beliefs about the malleability of self-attributes and expectations of social acceptance versus rejection—and show how modest interventions have brought about important real...

Gastric cancer: a reality to be changed.

I read with special interest the article by TorresRoman and Grados-Sanchez about “Gastric cancer in Peru, a reality that has to change” (1). They highlighted that up to 80% of cases are detected when the serosa and muscle layers of the stomach are affected; and cigarette smoking, diets rich in salt, smoked foods, sedentary lifestyle and obesity, and Helicobacter pylori infection as major associ...

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