Emotional Style and Susceptibility to the Common Cold
Psychosomatic MedicinePublished 1 July 2003
Sheldon Cohen, William J. Doyle, Ronald B. Turner, Cüneyt M. Alper, David P. Skoner
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The tendency to experience positive emotions was associated with greater resistance to objectively verifiable colds and was also associated with reporting fewer unfounded symptoms and NES with reporting more.
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The tendency to experience positive emotions was associated with greater resistance to objectively verifiable colds. PES was also associated with reporting fewer unfounded symptoms and NES with reporting more.
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