Table of Contents

Preface

Changing conceptions of health and illness
Determinants of health behaviour: deliberate and automaticinstigation of action
Beyond persuasion: the modification of health behaviour
Behaviour and health: excessive appetites
Behaviour and health: self-protection
Stress and health
Moderators of the stress–health relationship
The role of social psychology in health promotion

Glossary
References
Author index
Subject index

About the Author

Wolfgang Stroebe is Professor of Social Psychology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where he was founding director of the Research Institute for Psychology and Health, incorporating leading health researchers from Dutch and Belgian universities.