title: The Stress Club
author:  Tami West PhD 
description: Dr. Tami West has been teaching women how to live their own lives for more than twenty-five years. As author of Life Without the Monsters and A Womans Guide to Personal Achievement and Professional Success, West has delivered hundreds of standing-room-only presentations to women in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.
zlib_text: UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE
  
  FACULTE DE PSYCHOLOGIE ET
  
  SECTION
  
  DE
  
  PSYCHOLOGIE
  
  DES SCIENCES DE L’EDUCATION
  
  **PERSONALITY UNDER STRESS: WHO GETS ANGRY AND WHY?**
  
   **INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE APPRAISAL AND EMOTION**
  
  THESE
  
  Présentée à la
  
  Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l’éducation
  
  de l’Université de Genève
  
  pour obtenir le grade de
  
  Docteur en Psychologie
  
  par
  
  Tanja WRANIK
  
  (Allemagne)
  
  THESE N° 336
  
  GENEVE 2005
  
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  
  I was very fortunate to conduct research on a topic – or should I say on
  topics – that I found particularly interesting and exciting. In addition, I am
  grateful that I was able to conduct this research within in a very dynamic
  team, the Geneva Emotion Research Group, and to have benefited from the
  support of the Swiss National Science Foundation doctoral program
  
  « Stress and emotion at work and in social relationships ». The lectures,
  financing, and exchanges with researchers and participants from these two
  groups have helped make my PhD 