Competing theoretical models and equivocal evidence leave unanswered questions regarding stressors’ effect on creativity. The present meta-analysis of 76 experimental...
Alarm substances are airborne chemical signals, released by an individual into the environment, which communicate emotional stress between conspecifics. Here...
We report on an empirical study where we cut off email usage for five workdays for 13 information workers in...
Background: The experience of undergoing surgery is known to induce a short-term, fight-or-flight physiological stress response. As an optimum immune...
Acute traumatic stress may lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)1, which is characterized by delayed neuropsychiatric symptoms including depression, irritability,...
Psychosocial stress precipitates a wide spectrum of diseases with major public-health significance. The fight-or-flight response is generally regarded as the...
We propose a model wherein chronic stress results in glucocorticoid receptor resistance (GCR) that, in turn, results in failure to...
Stress is thought to suppress immune function and increase susceptibility to infections and cancer. Paradoxically, stress is also known to...
Immune cell trafficking is crucial to the performance of the surveillance as well as effector functions of the immune system....
The studies described here demonstrate that the activation of the physiologic stress response systems of the body can enhance immune...