The notion that stress and cancer are interlinked has dominated lay discourse for decades.
More recent animal studies indicate that stress can substantially facilitate cancer …

Cancer diagnosis and treatment constitute profoundly stressful experiences involving
unique and common challenges that generate uncertainty, fear, and emotional distress …

The range of psychosocial stress factors/processes (eg, chronic stress, distress states,
co**, social adversity) were reviewed as they relate to immune variables in cancer along …

Advances in the understanding of psychoneuroimmunology in the past decade have
emphasized the notion that stress and cancer are interlinked closely. Durable chronic stress …

Major life stressors, especially those involving interpersonal stress and social rejection, are
among the strongest proximal risk factors for depression. In this review, we propose a …

Social Safety Theory hypothesizes that develo** and maintaining friendly social bonds is
a fundamental organizing principle of human behavior and that threats to social safety are a …

Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and
situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions …

Scholarly and comprehensive yet accessible, this state-of-the-science work is widely
regarded as the definitive graduate-level psychology of religion text. The authors synthesize …

Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in
the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future …

Facing cancer diagnosis, patients with cancer are prone to psychological stress and
consequent psychological disorders. The association between psychological stress and …