Background Virtual reality (VR) research probes stress environments that are infeasible to
create in the real world. However, because research simulations are applied to narrow …

The belief that personality is fixed (an entity theory of personality) can give rise to negative
reactions to social adversities. Three studies showed that when social adversity is common …

Abstract Purpose of Review The objective of this review was to (1) outline the current
empirical evidence on the impact of social factors on the development and maintenance of …

Racism-related stress is thought to contribute to widespread race/ethnic health inequities via
negative emotion and allostatic stress process up-regulation. Although prior studies …

Emotion-focused therapy is a research-informed psychological therapy that to date has
mainly been studied in the context of depression, trauma and couple distress. The evidence …

Although an abundance of cross‐sectional data have linked abusive supervision with
employees' experience of health‐related problems, further research accounting for the …

The present study examined if the traits need to belong (NTB) and rejection sensitivity (RS)
differentially moderate the impact of experimentally manipulated social exclusion on stress …

Racial discrimination contributes to stress-related health disparities among African
Americans, but less is known about the acute effects of racial exclusion on the hypo-pituitary …

At multiple times in human history people have asked if there are good stigmas. Is there
some useful function stigmas serve in the context of our evolutionary history; is stigma …

Purpose Socially disconnected individuals have worse health than those who feel socially
connected. The mechanisms through which social disconnection influences physiological …