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When Worries Make You Sick: A Review of Perseverative Cognition, the Default Stress Response and Somatic Health
PsychologyJournal of Experimental Psychopathology

When Worries Make You Sick: A Review of Perseverative Cognition, the Default Stress Response and Somatic Health

B. Verkuil, J. F. Brosschot, et al.

This review, conducted by Bart Verkuil, Jos F. Brosschot, Winifred A. Gebhardt, and Julian F. Thayer, presents a self-regulation perspective on perseverative cognition—worry and rumination—as a default response to threat, novelty, and ambiguity, arguing chronic worriers prolong stress’s ‘wear and tear’ and that even unconscious perseverative cognition can have somatic health effects.... show more
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