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  2. Barbara Fredrickson - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Lee Fredrickson (born June 15, 1964) [1] is an American professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology.

  3. Critical positivity ratio - Wikipedia

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    Building on research by Barbara Fredrickson suggesting that individuals with a higher ratio of positive to negative emotions tend to have more successful life outcomes, [16] and on studies by Marcial Losada applying differential equations from fluid dynamics to human emotions, [citation needed] Fredrickson and Losada proposed as informative a ratio of positive to negative affect derived from ...

  4. Five stages of grief - Wikipedia

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    People dying may precede the survivors in this state, which typically comes with a calm, retrospective view for the individual, and a stable condition of emotions. Kübler-Ross identified additional stages of emotional response beyond the five widely recognized stages of grief, illustrated in a full-page graphic on page 251 of the 50th ...

  5. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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    The dying man readied his body and soul for death and waited. There were four general characteristics: first, the dying person would usually be lying in bed, or at least in a recumbent position. In the Christian tradition the dying person would lie on his or her back, facing the heavens. Second, the dying person in this period always presided ...

  6. List of countries by number of deaths - Wikipedia

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    The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    “The model that is geared toward alcoholism doesn’t effectively address heroin addiction,” Merrick said. “In a perfect world, we would have a 12-step model integrated with medically assisted therapy.” At least some of the top officials overseeing Kentucky’s response to the opioid epidemic are as open to medications as Merrick is.

  8. List of countries by mortality rate - Wikipedia

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    The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise. Many developing countries have far higher proportions of young people, and lower proportions of older people, than some developed countries, and thus may have much higher age-specific mortality rates while having lower crude mortality rates.

  9. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million people died. [1] In 2010, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 52.8 million people died. [2]