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Redford B. Williams Jr.

Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
5811 Buck Quarter Road, Hillsborough, NC 27278
905 W. Main Street, Suite 22 (2nd Floor), Durham, NC 27701

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Hostility and Health

Book section · January 1, 2022 Hostility has verified links to poor health outcomes with a particular impact on coronary artery disease and mortality due to all causes. Hostility is a global term encapsulating hostile interpretations of the actions of others, angry reactions to perceive ... Full text Cite

Interactive models of reactivity: The relationship between hostility and potentially pathogenic physiological responses to social stressors

Book section · January 1, 2018 The influence of behaviors on the development and progression of coronary heart disease (CHD) is thought to involve both psychosocial and physiological processes. For example, high blood pressure, high serum cholesterol, and cigarette smoking, considered t ... Full text Cite

Gene by environment interactions: Impact on women’s health

Book section · January 1, 2015 There is growing appreciation that a particular gene variant can have quite different effects on the expression of a particular phenotype in persons exposed to varying levels of environmental stress. It has been reported, for example, that among persons ex ... Full text Cite

Hostility, Neuroendocrine Changes, and Health Outcomes

Book section · April 1, 2010 Research conducted over the past several decades has documented a moderately strong association between chronic negative emotional states such as hostility and anger, and negative health outcomes. The interdisciplinary field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) ... Full text Cite

Hostility and Health

Book section · 2010 Full text Cite