LOG 02- Worry

Milk:

-Can contribute to relaxation -May decrease dreaming -Is high in tryptophan

What is the evidence that serotonin affects harm avoidance?

-People that make less serotonin transporter protein score higher on harm avoidance test than those that make more -Prozac specifically affects the serotonin transporter protein and decreases neuroticism in those who suffer from it

"Harm avoidance is a blanket trait that includes":

-hostility -anxiety -depression inhibition -fear -tiredness -shyness

To what extent do genes affect harm avoidance? That is, how much of the genetic variation within the population affects variation for the trait?

Genes account for about 40-90% depending on the study

Genes affect fear avoidance. Genes affect hair color. Is it correct to say, then, that genes 'determine' these traits? Complete this sentence: Prozac is to fear avoidance as ____ is/are to gray hair.

dye

"inhibition, what most of us call , appears to be the childhood form of harm avoidance."

shyness