![]() ![]() ![]() Clinical subpopulations may respond in different ways to different aspects of the same weather system as well as to different types of air masses. The most well-known group effects associated with weather changes involve psychiatric populations. This may explain the large individual variability in these behaviors. Learning and conditioning appear to mediate a powerful influence over weather-related responses. Weather changes are most frequently associated with behaviors that are the endpoints of inferred psychological processes that include mood, subclinical pain, anxiety, and the correlates of schedule shifts. This paper reviews the current status of each issue. Research concerning the complex relation between weather and psychological processes has emphasized three important issues: methodological problems, the determination of the major behavioral factors, and the isolation of neurobiological mechanisms. ![]()
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