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Prof. Jos Brosschot is a Professor at Leiden University's Social and Behavioural Sciences faculty, specializing in Health, Medical and Neuropsychology. He focuses on psycho-physiological stress mechanisms, particularly chronic stress and unconscious safety perceptions. His research explores prolonged physiological stress responses linked to perseverative cognition (e.g., worry) and generalized unsafety. He has held roles at the University of Amsterdam and collaborated with immunologists to pioneer stress-immune system research. Teaching includes courses on stress and health at Leiden's Psychology programs and Leiden University College The Hague.
Key contributions include the Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress, explaining how perceived threats trigger default stress responses. He has secured grants from NWO and KNAW, and his work appears in high-impact journals like Perspectives on Psychological Science. Notable blogs critique stress theory limitations and advocate for improved academic literature searching practices.
His research integrates laboratory studies on unconscious stress with real-world ecological momentary assessment (EMA), using ambulatory heart activity monitoring. Collaborative efforts with international experts (e.g., Thayer, Critchley) highlight interdisciplinary approaches to stress physiology and psychopathology.
