There has been growing research interest in what we term empathy-based stress, a process
of traumatic stressor exposure, empathic experience, and adverse reactions among …

Empathy is a fundamental component of our social-emotional experience. Over the last
decade, there has been increased interest in understanding the effects of acute stress on …

Researchers often mention the utility and need for R-squared measures of explained
variance for multilevel models (MLMs). Although this topic has been addressed by …

Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite 'proper'knowledge–it's too political
or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of 'proper'knowledge? Who defines …

The stress systems are powerful mediators between the organism's systemic dynamic
equilibrium and changes in its environment beyond the level of anticipated fluctuations. Over …

Psychosocial stress is a ubiquitous phenomenon in our society. While acute stress
responses are necessary and adaptive, excessive activation of neurobiological stress …

In caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses are experiencing a crisis of
emotional highs and lows that will have lasting implications for their professional and …

In our lives, we face countless situations in which we are observed and evaluated by our
social interaction partners. Social-evaluative threat is frequently associated with strong …

Stressful experiences can be transmitted among individuals through social interactions. Like
humans, rodents are social creatures whose behavior and physiology can be influenced by …

Altruism, defined as costly other-regarding behavior, varies considerably across people and
contexts. One prominent context in which people frequently must decide on how to socially …