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Mind-Body Center Study
Pittsburgh Cold Study 3
Aggregated Data

British Cold Study

Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., & Smith, A. P. (1991). Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold. New England Journal of Medicine, 325, 606-612.

Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., & Smith, A. P. (1992). Response to letters regarding Cohen, Tyrrell, & Smith, 1991. New England Journal of Medicine, 326, 645-646.

Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., & Smith, A. P. (1993). Negative life events, perceived stress, negative affect and susceptibility to the common cold. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 131-140.

Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., Russell, M. A. H., Jarvis, M. J., & Smith, A. P. (1993). Smoking, alcohol consumption and susceptibility to the common cold. American Journal of Public Health, 83, 1277-1283. PMCID: PMC1694990

Tyrrell, D. A. J., Cohen, S., & Schlarb, J. E. (1993). Signs and symptoms in common colds. Epidemiology and Infection, 111, 143-156. PMCID: PMC2271186

Cohen, S. (1995). Psychological stress and susceptibility to upper respiratory infections. The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 152, S53-S58.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Fireman, P., Gwaltney, J., & Newsom, J. (1995). State and trait negative affect as predictors of objective and subjective symptoms of respiratory viral infections. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 159-169.

Cohen, S. (1996). Psychological stress, immunity, and upper respiratory infections. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 86-89.

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Pittsburgh Cold Study 1

*Alper, C. M., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Buchman, C. A., Seroky, J. T., Gwaltney, J. M., & Cohen, S. (1996). Pre-challenge antibodies: moderators of infection rate, signs and symptoms in adults experimentally challenged with rhinovirus 39. Laryngoscope, 106, 1298-1305.

*Angelini, B., Van Deusen, M. A., Doyle, W. J., Seroky, J, Cohen, S., & Skoner, D. P. (1997). Lower airway responses to rhinovirus-Hanks in healthy subjects with and without allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 99, 618-619.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Rabin, B. S., & Gwaltney, J. M., Jr. (1997). Social ties and susceptibility to the common cold. Journal of the American Medical Association, 277, 1940-1944.

*Alper, C.M., Doyle, W.J., Skoner, D.P., Buchman, C.A., Cohen, S., & Gwaltney, J.M. (1998). Pre-challenge antibodies moderate disease expression in adults experimentally exposed to rhinovirus strain hanks. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 27, 119-128.

Cohen, S., Frank, E., Doyle, W.J., Skoner, D. P., Rabin, B. S., & Gwaltney, J. M., Jr. (1998). Types of stressors that increase susceptibility to the common cold in healthy adults. Health Psychology. 17, 214-223.

*Yuta, A., Doyle, W.J., Gaumond, E., Ali, M., Tamarkin, L., Baraniuk, J. N., Van Deusen, M., Cohen, S., & Skoner, D. P. (1998). Rhinovirus infection induces mucous hypersecretion. American Journal of Physiology, 18, L1017-L1023.

*Doyle, W. J., Alper, C. M., Buchman, C., Moody, S. A., Skoner, D. P., & Cohen, S. (1999). Illness and otological changes during upper respiratory virus infection. Laryngoscope, 109, 324-328.

Feldman, P., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., & Gwaltney, J. M. (1999). The impact of personality on the reporting of unfounded symptoms and illness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 370-378.

Miller, G. E., Cohen, S., Rabin, B. S., Skoner, D. P., & Doyle, W. J. Personality and tonic cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and immune function. (1999). Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 13, 109-123.

Cohen, S. (1999). Social status and susceptibility to respiratory infections. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 896, 246-253.

Cohen, S., Brissette, I., Doyle, W. J., & Skoner, D. P. (2000). Social integration and health: The case of the common cold. Journal of Social Structure.

Brissette, I., & Cohen, S. (2002). The contribution of individual differences in hostility to the associations between daily interpersonal conflict, affect, and sleep. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1265-1274. (The data reported in Brissette & Cohen [2002] were collected from a subset of PCS1 participants who volunteered to take part in a separate study. These data are not included in the PCS1 data set.)

*Krahnke J, Gentile DA, Cordoro K, Angelini BA, Cohen S, Doyle WJ, & Skoner DP. (2003). Comparison of subject-reported allergy versus skin test results in a common cold trial. American Journal of Rhinology, 17, 159-62.

* The indicated papers were derived from analyses that combined data from some or all participants in PCS1 with those from other samples not included in the Common Cold Project data archive. Some also include data that were collected by other investigators for ancillary studies but to which we have no access. Accordingly, precise replication of the analyses reported in these studies is not possible with the data available through this website.

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Pittsburgh Cold Study 2

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Turner, R. B., Alper, C. M., & Skoner, D. P. (2003). Emotional style and susceptibility to the common cold. Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 652-657.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Turner, R. B., Alper, C. M., & Skoner, D. P. (2003). Sociability and susceptibility to the common cold. Psychological Science,14, 389-395.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Turner, R., Alper, C. & Skoner, D. P. (2004). Childhood socioeconomic status and host resistance to infectious illness in adulthood. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 553-558.

Cohen, S. (2005). Keynote presentation at the eighth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine: The Pittsburgh Common Cold Studies-- Psychosocial Predictors of Susceptibility to Respiratory Infectious Illness. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 12, 123-31.

Polk, D. E., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., & Kirschbaum, C. (2005). State and trait affect as predictors of salivary cortisol in healthy adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30, 261-272.

Doyle, W. J., Gentile, D. A., & Cohen, S. (2006). Emotional style, nasal cytokines and illness expression after experimental rhinovirus exposure. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 20, 175-181.

Murdock, K. W., LeRoy, A. S., & Fagundes, C. P. (2017). Early‐life socio‐economic status and adult health: The role of positive affect. Stress and Health, 33, 190-198. PMCID: PMC5253328

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Mind-Body Center Study

Cohen, S., Alper, C.M., Doyle, W. J., Treanor, J. J., & Turner, R. B. (2006). Positive emotional style predicts resistance to illness after experimental exposure to rhinovirus or influenza A virus. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 809-815.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W.J., & Baum, A. (2006). Socioeconomic status is associated with stress hormones. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 414-420.

Janicki-Deverts, D., Zilles, K., Cohen, S., & Baum, A. (2006). Can a 15-hour (overnight) urinary catecholamine measure substitute for a 24-hour measure? Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 11, 1-11.

Cohen, S. & Lemay, E. (2007). Why would social networks be linked to affect and health practices? Health Psychology, 26, 410-417.

Janicki-Deverts, D., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J. Turner, R. B., & Treanor, J. J. (2007). Infection-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines are associated with decreases in positive affect, but not increases in negative affect. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 21, 301-307.

Cohen, S., Alper, C., Doyle, W. J., Adler, N., Treanor, J., & Turner, R. (2008). Objective and subjective socioeconomic status and susceptibility to the common cold. Health Psychology, 27, 268-274.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Alper, C. M., Janicki-Deverts, D., & Turner, R. B. (2009). Sleep habits and susceptibility to the common cold. Archives of Internal Medicine, 169, 62-67. PMCID: PMC2629403

Pressman, S. D., Matthews, K. A, Cohen, S., Martire, L., Scheier, M., Baum, A., & Schulz, R. (2009). Association of enjoyable leisure activities with psychological and physical well-being. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 725-732. PMCID: PMC2863117

Janicki-Deverts, D. Cohen, S., & Doyle, W. (2010). Cynical hostility and stimulated Th-1/Th-2 cytokine production. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 24, 58-63. PMCID: PMC2787805

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Pittsburgh Cold Study 3

Doyle, W. J., Casselbrant, M. L., Li-Korotky, H., Cullen Doyle, A. P., Lo, C., & Cohen, S. (2010). The IL-6 (-174, C/C) genotype predicts greater rhinovirus illness. The Journal of Infectious Disease, 201, 199-206. PMCID: PMC2943745

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Turner, R. B., Casselbrant, M. L., Li-Korotky, H., Epel, E. S., & Doyle, W. J. (2013). Association between telomere length and experimentally induced upper respiratory viral infection in healthy adults. Journal of the American Medical Association, 309, 699-705. PMCID: PMC3786437

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Turner, R. B., Marsland, A. L., Casselbrant, M. L., Li-Korotky, H.-S., Epel, E. S., & Doyle, W. J. (2013). Childhood socioeconomic status, telomere length, and susceptibility to upper respiratory infection. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 34, 31-38. PMCID: PMC3795973

Janicki-Deverts, D., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Marsland, A. L., & Bosch, J. (2014). Childhood environments and cytomegalovirus serostatus and reactivation in adults. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 40, 174-181. PMCID: PMC4102652

Prather, A.A., Janicki-Deverts, D., Hall, M.H., Cohen, S. (2015). Behaviorally assessed sleep and susceptibility to the common cold. Sleep, 38, 1353-1359. PMCID: PMC4531403

Besedovsky, L., & Born, J. (2015). Sleep, don’t sneeze: Longer sleep reduces the risk of catching a cold (commentary on Prather et al., 2015). Sleep, 38, 1341-1342. PMCID: PMC4531398

Murdock, K. W., & Fagundes, C. P. (2017). Attachment orientations, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and stress are important for understanding the link between childhood socioeconomic status and adult self-reported health. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 51, 189-198. PMCID: PMC5368040

Murdock, K. W., Seiler, A., Chirinos, D. A., Garcini, L. M., Acebo, S. L., Cohen, S., & Fagundes, C. P. (2018). Low childhood subjective social status and telomere length in adulthood: The role of attachment orientations. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 340-346. PMCID: PMC5867236

Roos, L. G., Levens, S. M., & Bennett, J. M. (2018). Stressful life events, relationship stressors, and cortisol reactivity: The moderating role of suppression. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 89, 69-77. PMCID: PMC5878721

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Aggregated Dataset

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Doyle, W. J., Miller, G. E., Frank, E., Rabin, B. S., & Turner, R. B. (2012). Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease risk ^a. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 5995-5999. PMCID: PMC3341031

Sneed, R., Cohen, S., Turner, R.B., & Doyle, W. J. (2012). Parenthood and host resistance to the common cold. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74, 567-573. PMCID: PMC3746028

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., & Doyle, W. J. (2015). Self-rated health in healthy adults and susceptibility to the common cold. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77, 959-968. PMCID: PMC4643389

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Turner, R. B., & Doyle, W. J. (2015). Does hugging provide a stress-buffering social support? A study of susceptibility to upper respiratory infection and illness. Psychological Science, 26, 135-147. PMCID: PMC4323947

Janicki-Deverts, D., Cohen, S., & Doyle, W. J. (2016). Dispositional affect moderates the stress-buffering effect of social support on risk for developing the common cold. Journal of Personality, 85, 675-686. PMCID: PMC5830120

Janicki-Deverts, D., Cohen, S., Turner, R. B., & Doyle, W. J. (2016). Basal salivary cortisol secretion and susceptibility to upper respiratory infection. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 53, 255-261. PMCID: PMC4783177

Miller, G. E., Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Brody, G. H., & Chen, E. (2016). Viral challenge reveals further evidence of skin-deep resilience in African Americans from disadvantaged backgrounds. Health Psychology, 35, 1225-1234. PMCID: PMC5067971

Prather, A. A., Janicki-Deverts, D., Adler, N. E., Hall, M., & Cohen, S. (2017). Sleep habits and susceptibility to upper respiratory illness: The moderating role of subjective socioeconomic status. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 51, 137-146. PMCID: PMC5253106

Chin, B., Murphy, M. L. M., Janicki-Deverts, D., & Cohen, S. (2017). Marital status as a predictor of diurnal salivary cortisol output and slopes in a community sample of healthy adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 78, 68-75. PMCID: PMC5365082

Cohen, S., Chin, B., Murphy, M. L. M., & Janicki-Deverts, D. (2017). A lesson in controlling for third factors and reading before you write: A reply to Giannouli. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 81, 158.

Chin, B., Murphy, M. L. M., & Cohen, S. (2018). Age moderates the association between social integration and diurnal cortisol measures. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90, 102-109.

^a Errata:
Although the description in the text is correct, the titles of tables 1 and 2 are incorrect and misleading. They should read as follows:
Table 1. Simple effect associations of cortisol and lymphocyte subsets for subjects experiencing and not experiencing a stressful life event.
Table 2. Simple effect associations of cortisol and lymphocyte subsets for subject who did and did not develop a common cold.

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Publications by Topic

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Allergy
Catecholamines Measurement
Cortisol
Emotion & Cytokines
Genotypes, Colds
Health Behaviors & Colds
Health Behaviors & Immunity
Leisure
Overview Articles
Personality & Colds
Personality & Immunity
Self-Rated Health
Social Ties & Colds
Social Ties & Health Behaviors
Socioeconomic Status (SES)
Socioeconomic Status (SES) & Colds
Stress & Colds
Symptoms, Colds
Telomere Length

Allergy

Angelini, B., Van Deusen, M. A., Doyle, W. J., Seroky, J, Cohen, S., & Skoner, D. P. (1997). Lower airway responses to rhinovirus-Hanks in healthy subjects with and without allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 99, 618-619.

Krahnke, J., Gentile, D. A., Cordoro, K., Angelini, B. A., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., & Skoner, D. P. (2003). Comparison of subject-reported allergy versus skin test results in a common cold trial. American Journal of Rhinology, 17, 159-62.

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Catecholamines Measurement

Janicki-Deverts, D., Zilles, K., Cohen, S., & Baum, A. (2006). Can a 15-hour (overnight) urinary catecholamine measure substitute for a 24-hour measure? Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 11, 1-11.

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Cortisol

Stone, A. A., Schwartz, J.E., Smyth, J., Kirschbaum, C., Cohen, S., Hellhammer, D., & Grossman, S. (2001). Individual differences in the diurnal cycle of salivary free cortisol: A replication of flattened cycles for some individuals. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 26, 295-306.

Polk, D. E., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., & Kirschbaum, C. (2005). State and trait affect as predictors of salivary cortisol in healthy adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30, 261-272.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W.J., & Baum, A. (2006). Socioeconomic status is associated with stress hormones. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 414-420.

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Doyle, W. J., Miller, G. E., Frank, E., Rabin, B. S., & Turner, R. B. (2012). Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease risk ^a. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 5995-5999. PMCID: PMC3341031

Cohen, S., Chin, B., Murphy, M. L. M., & Janicki-Deverts, D. (2017). A lesson in controlling for third factors and reading before you write: A reply to Giannouli. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 81, 158.

Chin, B., Murphy, M. L. M., & Cohen, S. (2018). Age moderates the association between social integration and diurnal cortisol measures. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90, 102-109.

Emotion & Cytokines

Janicki-Deverts, D., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J. Turner, R. B., & Treanor, J. J. (2007). Infection-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines are associated with decreases in positive affect, but not increases in negative affect. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 21, 301-307.

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Genotypes, Colds

Health Behaviors & Colds

Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., Russell, M. A. H., Jarvis, M. J., & Smith, A. P. (1993). Smoking, alcohol consumption and susceptibility to the common cold. American Journal of Public Health, 83, 1277-1283. PMCID: PMC1694990

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Alper, C. M., Janicki-Deverts, D., & Turner, R. B. (2009). Sleep habits and susceptibility to the common cold. Archives of Internal Medicine, 169, 62-67. PMCID: PMC2629403

Prather, A.A., Janicki-Deverts, D., Hall, M.H., Cohen, S. (2015). Behaviorally assessed sleep and susceptibility to the common cold. Sleep, 38, 1353-1359. PMCID: PMC4531403

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Health Behaviors & Immunity

Parry, H., Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., Fisher, A., Russell, M. A. H., & Jarvis, M. J. (1997). Smoking, alcohol consumption and leukocyte counts. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 107, 64-67.

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Leisure

Pressman, S. D., Matthews, K. A, Cohen, S., Martire, L., Scheier, M., Baum, A. & Schulz, R. (2009). Association of enjoyable leisure activities with psychological and physical well-being. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 725-732. PMCID: PMC2863117

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Overview Articles

Cohen, S. (2005). Keynote presentation at the eighth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine: The Pittsburgh Common Cold Studies-- Psychosocial Predictors of Susceptibility to Respiratory Infectious Illness. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 12, 123-31.

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Personality & Colds

Feldman, P., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., & Gwaltney, J. M. (1999). The impact of personality on the reporting of unfounded symptoms and illness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 370-378.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Turner, R. B., Alper, C. M., & Skoner, D. P. (2003). Emotional style and susceptibility to the common cold. Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 652-657.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Turner, R. B., Alper, C. M., & Skoner, D. P. (2003). Sociability and susceptibility to the common cold. Psychological Science,14, 389-395.

Doyle, W. J., Gentile, D. A., & Cohen, S. (2006). Emotional style, nasal cytokines and illness expression after experimental rhinovirus exposure. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 20, 175-181.

Cohen, S., Alper, C.M., Doyle, W. J., Treanor, J. J., & Turner, R. B. (2006). Positive emotional style predicts resistance to illness after experimental exposure to rhinovirus or influenza A virus. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 809-815.

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Personality & Immunity

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Fireman, P., Gwaltney, J., & Newsom, J. (1995). State and trait negative affect as predictors of objective and subjective symptoms of respiratory viral infections. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 159-169.

Miller, G. E., Cohen, S., Rabin, B. S., Skoner, D. P., & Doyle, W. J. (1999). Personality and tonic cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and immune function. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 13, 109-123.

Cohen, S., Alper, C.M., Doyle, W. J., Treanor, J. J., & Turner, R. B. (2006). Positive emotional style predicts resistance to illness after experimental exposure to rhinovirus or influenza A virus. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 809-815.

Doyle, W. J., Gentile, D. A., & Cohen, S. (2006). Emotional style, nasal cytokines and illness expression after experimental rhinovirus exposure. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 20, 175-181.

Janicki-Deverts, D. Cohen, S., & Doyle, W. (2010). Cynical hostility and simulated Th-1/Th-2 cytokine production. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 24, 58-63. PMCID: PMC2787805

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Self-Rated Health

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., & Doyle, W.J. (2015). Self-rated health in healthy adults and susceptibility to the common cold. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77(9), 959-968.

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Social Ties & Colds

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Rabin, B. S., & Gwaltney, J. M., Jr. (1997). Social ties and susceptibility to the common cold. Journal of the American Medical Association, 277, 1940-1944.

Cohen, S., Brissette, I., Doyle, W. J., & Skoner, D. P. (2000). Social integration and health: The case of the common cold. Journal of Social Structure.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Turner, R. B., Alper, C. M., & Skoner, D. P. (2003). Sociability and susceptibility to the common cold. Psychological Science, 14, 389-395.

Sneed, R., Cohen, S., Turner, R.B., & Doyle, W. J. (2012). Parenthood and host resistance to the common cold. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74, 567-573. PMCID: PMC3746028

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Social Ties & Health Behaviors

Brissette, I., & Cohen, S. (2002). The contribution of individual differences in hostility to the associations between daily interpersonal conflict, affect, and sleep. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1265-1274. (The data reported in Brissette & Cohen [2002] were collected from a subset of PCS1 participants who volunteered to take part in a separate study. These data are not included in the PCS1 data set.)

Cohen, S., & Lemay, E. (2007). Why would social networks be linked to affect and health practices? Health Psychology, 26, 410-417.

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Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Cohen, S., Doyle, W.J., & Baum, A. (2006). Socioeconomic status is associated with stress hormones. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 414-420.

Janicki-Deverts, D., Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Marsland, A. L., & Bosch, J. (2014). Childhood environments and cytomegalovirus serostatus and reactivation in adults. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 40, 174-181. PMCID: PMC4102652

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Socioeconomic Status (SES) & Colds

Cohen, S. (1999). Social status and susceptibility to respiratory infections. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 896, 246-253.

Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Turner, R., Alper, C. & Skoner, D. P. (2004). Childhood socioeconomic status and host resistance to infectious illness in adulthood. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 553-558.

Cohen, S., Alper, C., Doyle, W. J., Adler, N., Treanor, J., & Turner, R. (2008). Objective and subjective socioeconomic status and susceptibility to the common cold. Health Psychology, 27, 268-274.

Murdock, K. W., LeRoy, A. S., & Fagundes, C. P. (2017). Early‐life socio‐economic status and adult health: The role of positive affect. Stress and Health, 33, 190-198. PMCID: PMC5253328

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Stress & Colds

Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., & Smith, A. P. (1991). Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold. New England Journal of Medicine, 325, 606-612.

Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., & Smith, A. P. (1992). Response to letters regarding Cohen, Tyrrell, & Smith, 1991. New England Journal of Medicine, 326, 645-646.

Cohen, S., Tyrrell, D. A. J., & Smith, A. P. (1993). Negative life events, perceived stress, negative affect and susceptibility to the common cold. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 131-140.

Cohen, S. (1995). Psychological stress and susceptibility to upper respiratory infections. The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 152, S53-S58.

Cohen, S. (1996). Psychological stress, immunity, and upper respiratory infections. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 86-89.

Cohen, S., Frank, E., Doyle, W.J., Skoner, D. P., Rabin, B. S., & Gwaltney, J. M., Jr. (1998). Types of stressors that increase susceptibility to the common cold in healthy adults. Health Psychology, 17, 214-223.

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Doyle, W. J., Miller, G. E., Frank, E., Rabin, B. S., & Turner, R. B. (2012). Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease risk ^a. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 5995-5999. PMCID: PMC3341031

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Turner, R. B., & Doyle, W. J. (2015). Does Hugging Provide Stress-Buffering Social Support? A Study of Susceptibility to Upper Respiratory Infection and Illness. Psychological Science, 26(2), 135-147. PMCID:PMC4323947

Murphy, M. L. M., Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., & Doyle, W. J. (2017). Offspring of parents who were separated and not speaking to one another have reduced resistance to the common cold as adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, 6515-6520. PMCID: PMC5488935

^a Errata:
Although the description in the text is correct, the titles of tables 1 and 2 are incorrect and misleading. They should read as follows:
Table 1. Simple effect associations of cortisol and lymphocyte subsets for subjects experiencing and not experiencing a stressful life event.
Table 2. Simple effect associations of cortisol and lymphocyte subsets for subject who did and did not develop a common cold.

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Symptoms, Colds

Tyrrell, D. A. J., Cohen, S., & Schlarb, J. E. (1993). Signs and symptoms in common colds. Epidemiology and Infection, 111, 143-156. PMCID: PMC2271186

Alper, C. M., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Buchman, C. A., Seroky, J. T., Gwaltney, J. M., & Cohen, S. (1996). Pre-challenge antibodies: moderators of infection rate, signs and symptoms in adults experimentally challenged with rhinovirus 39. Laryngoscope, 106, 1298-1305.

Angelini, B., Van Deusen, M. A., Doyle, W. J., Seroky, J, Cohen, S., & Skoner, D. P. (1997). Lower airway responses to rhinovirus-Hanks in healthy subjects with and without allergy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 99, 618-619.

Alper, C.M., Doyle, W.J., Skoner, D.P., Buchman, C.A., Cohen, S., & Gwaltney, J.M. (1998). Pre-challenge antibodies moderate disease expression in adults experimentally exposed to rhinovirus strain hanks. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 27, 119-128.

Yuta, A., Doyle, W.J., Gaumond, E., Ali, M., Tamarkin, L., Baraniuk, J. N., Van Deusen, M., Cohen, S., & Skoner, D. P. (1998). Rhinovirus infection induces mucous hypersecretion. American Journal of Physiology, 18, L1017-L1023.

Doyle, W. J., Alper, C. M., Buchman, C., Moody, S. A., Skoner, D. P., & Cohen, S. (1999). Illness and otological changes during upper respiratory virus infection. Laryngoscope, 109, 324-328.

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Telomere Length

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Turner, R. B., Casselbrant, M. L., Li-Korotky, H., Epel, E. S., & Doyle, W. J. (2013). Association between telomere length and experimentally induced upper respiratory viral infection in healthy adults. Journal of the American Medical Association, 309, 699-705. PMCID: PMC3786437

Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Turner, R. B., Marsland, A. L., Casselbrant, M. L., Li-Korotky, H.-S., Epel, E. S., & Doyle, W. J. (2013). Childhood socioeconomic status, telomere length, and susceptibility to upper respiratory infection. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 34, 31-38. PMCID: PMC3795973