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2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To R.S.L., my knight on a white horse —B.N.L. This page intentionally left blank Foreword Z This book is historic. It represents the last publication of its senior author, Richard S. Lazarus, who died of one of the environmental hazards he spoke of in this book—a bathroom fall. It also marks the culmination of a remarkable career of creative contribution to behavioral science. I witnessed the conceptualization, gestation