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| Sheldon A CohenSummaryAffiliation: Carnegie Mellon University Country: USA Publications
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Association between telomere length and experimentally induced upper respiratory viral infection in healthy adultsSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
JAMA 309:699-705. 2013..Although leukocyte telomere length is associated with mortality and many chronic diseases thought to be manifestations of age-related functional decline, it is not known whether it relates to acute disease in younger healthy populations...
Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease riskSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:5995-9. 2012..Because inflammation plays an important role in the onset and progression of a wide range of diseases, this model may have broad implications for understanding the role of stress in health...
Sociability and susceptibility to the common coldSheldon Cohen
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 14:389-95. 2003..The association between sociability and disease was also independent of baseline immunity (virus-specific antibody), demographics, emotional styles, stress hormones, and health practices...- Stable individual differences in physiological response to stressors: implications for stress-elicited changes in immune related healthS Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Brain Behav Immun 17:407-14. 2003.... - Childhood socioeconomic status and host resistance to infectious illness in adulthoodSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychosom Med 66:553-8. 2004.... - Social relationships and healthSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am Psychol 59:676-84. 2004 - Keynote Presentation at the Eight International Congress of Behavioral Medicine: the Pittsburgh common cold studies: psychosocial predictors of susceptibility to respiratory infectious illnessSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Int J Behav Med 12:123-31. 2005..Finally, we report recent evidence that lower levels of early childhood socioeconomic status (SES) are associated with greater risk of viral-induced illness during adulthood, independent of adult SES... - Socioeconomic status, race, and diurnal cortisol decline in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) StudySheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychosom Med 68:41-50. 2006.... - Socioeconomic status is associated with stress hormonesSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Psychosom Med 68:414-20. 2006.... - Positive emotional style predicts resistance to illness after experimental exposure to rhinovirus or influenza a virusSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890
Psychosom Med 68:809-15. 2006..This work did not control for social and cognitive factors closely associated with PES. We replicate the original study using a different virus and controls for these alternative explanations... - Why would social networks be linked to affect and health practices?Sheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Health Psychol 26:410-7. 2007..To examine the relation among social integration (SI), affect, and smoking and alcohol consumption... - Psychological stress and diseaseSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
JAMA 298:1685-7. 2007 - Objective and subjective socioeconomic status and susceptibility to the common coldSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Otolaryngology, Pittsburgh s Children s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Health Psychol 27:268-74. 2008..We ask whether subjective socioeconomic status (SES) predicts who develops a common cold when exposed to a cold virus... - Sleep habits and susceptibility to the common coldSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:62-7. 2009..This article examines whether sleep duration and efficiency in the weeks preceding viral exposure are associated with cold susceptibility... - Childhood socioeconomic status and adult healthSheldon Cohen
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1186:37-55. 2010..While early childhood exposures seem to be potent predictors of a range of health outcomes, we emphasize that later childhood and adolescent exposures are risks for other health outcomes... - Emotional style and susceptibility to the common coldSheldon Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Psychosom Med 65:652-7. 2003..We tested these hypotheses for host resistance to the common cold... - Chronic social stress, social status, and susceptibility to upper respiratory infections in nonhuman primatesS Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA 15213 USA
Psychosom Med 59:213-21. 1997..The objective of the study was to assess the roles of social stress and social status in susceptibility to upper respiratory infection... - Types of stressors that increase susceptibility to the common cold in healthy adultsS Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Health Psychol 17:214-23. 1998.... - Psychological stress, cytokine production, and severity of upper respiratory illnessS Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Psychosom Med 61:175-80. 1999..The purpose of this study is to assess the role of psychological stress in the expression of illness among infected subjects and to test the plausibility of local proinflammatory cytokine production as a pathway linking stress to illness... - Social ties and susceptibility to the common coldS Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
JAMA 277:1940-4. 1997..To examine the hypothesis that diverse ties to friends, family, work, and community are associated with increased host resistance to infection... - Social status and susceptibility to respiratory infectionsS Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 3890, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 896:246-53. 1999..However, further increases in social status were associated with further decreases in susceptibility in both monkeys and humans... - Pathways linking major depression and immunity in ambulatory female patientsG E Miller
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychosom Med 61:850-60. 1999..The goals of this study were to investigate whether depression is associated with cellular immunity in ambulatory patients and to identify neuroendocrine and behavioral pathways that might account for this relationship... - Social support and adjustment to cancer: reconciling descriptive, correlational, and intervention researchV S Helgeson
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Health Psychol 15:135-48. 1996..Reasons for inconsistencies between the correlational and intervention literatures are discussed, and future directions are outlined... - Psychological stress and antibody response to immunization: a critical review of the human literatureS Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychosom Med 63:7-18. 2001..The objective of this review was to evaluate the evidence for the hypothesis that psychological stress influences antibody response to immunization in humans... - Long-term effects of educational and peer discussion group interventions on adjustment to breast cancerV S Helgeson
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Health Psychol 20:387-92. 2001..The authors continued to find no benefits of the peer discussion intervention, either alone or in combination with education... - Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common coldS Cohen
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
N Engl J Med 325:606-12. 1991..To investigate this issue, we prospectively studied the relation between psychological stress and the frequency of documented clinical colds among subjects intentionally exposed to respiratory viruses... - Personality and tonic cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and immune parametersG E Miller
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Brain Behav Immun 13:109-23. 1999..These findings are consistent with the notion that personality contributes to basal physiology and provide a foundation for further research on the relationship between personality and natural killer cell cytotoxicity... - Group support interventions for women with breast cancer: who benefits from what?V S Helgeson
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 3890, USA edu
Health Psychol 19:107-14. 2000..Peer discussion groups were helpful for women who lacked support from their partners or physicians but harmful for women who had high levels of support. Implications of these results for clinical interventions are discussed... - Associations between stress, trait negative affect, acute immune reactivity, and antibody response to hepatitis B injection in healthy young adultsA L Marsland
Behavioral Medicine Program, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 2593, USA
Health Psychol 20:4-11. 2001..These data provide evidence that trait negative affect and the magnitude of stress-induced suppression of immune function may have clinical significance... - Comparison of subject-reported allergy versus skin test results in a common cold trialJason S Krahnke
Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Rhinol 17:159-62. 2003..These results have implications in both clinical practice and research settings... - Psychological interventions and the immune system: a meta-analytic review and critiqueG E Miller
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Health Psychol 20:47-63. 2001..This literature has important conceptual and methodological issues that need to be resolved before any definitive conclusions can be reached... - The impact of personality on the reporting of unfounded symptoms and illnessP J Feldman
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 77:370-8. 1999..Openness to Experience was associated with reporting unfounded symptoms in those with verifiable colds, whereas Conscientiousness was associated with reporting unfounded illness in those who were not ill...
Research Grants
- Social and psychological risk for infectious illnessSheldon Cohen; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Social and psychological risk for infectious illnessSheldon Cohen; Fiscal Year: 2009..abstract_text> ..
- Social and psychological risk for infectious illnessSheldon A Cohen; Fiscal Year: 2010..abstract_text> ..