Abstract
We have come to the examination of stress indirectly, via an interest in consciousness, or rather a specific aspect of consciousness. Our point of view is that
of personality-social psychology, and the major focus of our interest is the role
that attentional processes play in the self-regulation of behavior. That phrase
"self-regulation of behavior" sounds somewhat grandiose and all-encompassing. And in fact, standing back and looking at what we have been trying to say,
we may have been a bit grandiose in our assertions. Grandiose or not, however,
it seems to us that those assertions enjoy a substantial degree of empirical
support.