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Social-Evaluative Threat and Proinflammatory Cytokine Regulation: An Experimental Laboratory Investigation

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This study experimentally tested whether a stressor characterized by social-evaluative threat (SET), a context in which the self can be judged negatively by others, would elicit increases in proinflammatory cytokine activity and alter the regulation of this response. This hypothesis was derived in part from research on immunological responses to social threat in nonhuman animals. Healthy female participants were assigned to perform a speech and a math task in the presence or absence of an evaluative audience (SET or non-SET, respectively). As hypothesized, stimulated production of the proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) increased from baseline to poststressor in the SET condition, but was unchanged in the non-SET condition. Further, the increases in TNF-α production correlated with participants' cognitive appraisals of being evaluated. Additionally, the ability of glucocorticoids to shut down the inflammatory response was decreased in the SET condition. These findings underscore the importance of social evaluation as a threat capable of eliciting proinflammatory cytokine activity and altering its regulation.

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Authors
Dickerson, S. S., Gable, S. L., Irwin, M. R., Aziz, N., & Kemeny, M. E.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Dickerson, Sally S.
Venue
Psychological Science
Published
2009-10
Volume
20
Issue
10
Pages
1237-1244
ISSN
  • 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9280
OpenAlex
W2108820669
Cited by
197
References
36
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Center for Research Resources ((M01 RR00865), M01RR000865)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Biological Psychiatry › Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response
Keywords
social-evaluative threat, inflammatory cytokines, TNF-α, stress, cognitive appraisal, glucocorticoids, inflammation modulation, social evaluation, speaking tasks, audience evaluation
MeSH terms
Adult, Analysis of Variance, Blood Pressure, Emotions, Female, Glucocorticoids, Humans, Mathematics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Self Concept, Social Behavior, Speech, Stress, Psychological, Task Performance and Analysis, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha, Cytokines, Young Adult

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