Previous studies conducted in Western cultures have shown that negative emotions predict
higher levels of pro-inflammatory biomarkers, specifically interleukin-6 (IL-6). This link …

Prior research has demonstrated that the daily experience of negative affect is associated
with increased levels of proinflammatory activity as evidenced by higher interleukin-6 among …

Negative emotions are reliably associated with poorer health (eg, Kiecolt-Glaser, McGuire,
Robles, & Glaser, 2002), but only recently has research begun to acknowledge the important …

Highlights•How emotion and biological health are related depends on cultural contexts.•The
link between emotion and subjective health may be artificially conflated.•How anger and …

Psychological distress is an inevitable part of life. Research drawing on theories from clinical
psychology, health psychology, and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) has identified …

▪ Abstract Negative emotions can intensify a variety of health threats. We provide a broad
framework relating negative emotions to a range of diseases whose onset and course may …

An emerging literature indicates that dispositional positive affect (PA) may play a protective
role in health and render individuals less susceptible to inflammatory diseases. In this …

A growing literature suggests that psychosocial factors, such as chronic stress and
depression, are associated with increased vulnerability to inflammatory disease; however …

Alterations in immune system gene expression have been implicated in psychopathology,
but it remains unclear whether similar associations occur for intraindividual variations in …

There is growing evidence that inflammatory responses may help to explain how emotions
get “under the skin” to influence disease susceptibility. Moving beyond examination of …