Kelly McGonigal
American psychologist
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Kelly McGonigal's Degrees
- PhD Psychology Stanford University
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz
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Why Is Kelly McGonigal Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who is known for her work in the field of "science help" which focuses on translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support health and well-being. Mainstream media articles about inner-conflict-related aspects of modern lifestyles regularly quote her. A longtime advocate of self-compassion and mindfulness as stress-coping strategies, McGonigal has altered her focus on the problematic aspects of stress; in a talk at the TEDGlobalGlobal 2013, she emphasized the importance of an individual's subjective belief in themselves as someone who is able to cope successfully as being a crucial factor in their actual response to stress.
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