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The present study examines the relationship between the desire to conform to perceived societal norms and the misreporting of weight and height. Self-reported and measured weights and heights for 56 young, healthy non-obese volunteers were assessed and compared to scores on the Marlowe Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS). Discrepancies between actual and self-reported weights for females were directly related to actual weight (r 0.66, P`0.0001). The same was not true for males (r 0.03). Height was signi®cantly overreported, regardless of gender (P`0.004). Most importantly, for females, MCSDS scores were signi®cantly correlated with the discrepancy between actual and self-reported weights after statistically adjusting for differences in actual weight (r 0.51, P`0.0001).Results suggest that the misreporting of weight among young, non-obese women may be directly in¯uenced by the desire to conform to perceived societal norms.

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Consistent with the task-related increases in NKCA and IFN-gamma, acute stress may signal an increase in at least some aspects of the cell-mediated, or TH1-driven, immune response. Furthermore, the finding that heart rate reactivity was related in part to baseline individual differences in cortisol production suggests that short-term cardiovascular responses to stress may be directly related to longer-term neuroendocrine modulation. Finally, the present results also help to highlight the influence of both sympathetic and nonsympathetic pathways in the response to acute stressors and suggest tentative links between certain psychological traits and various aspects of stress-induced reactivity.