Immunological variability associated with experimentally-induced positive and negative affective states

Futterman, Ann D.; Kemeny, Margaret E.; Shapiro, David; Polonsky, William H.; Fahey, John L.

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“…In a preliminary study, we found that all experimentally induced mood states produced greater immunological fluctuations (i.e., NK cell per cent and activity) than a neutral state and that these effects were stronger for more aroused moods, i.e., happiness and anxiety, compared with depression (16). We believed that affective arousal contributed in important ways to immunological variability and needed to be evaluated in future studies.…”

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“…We developed a novel affect-induction technique for "method" trained actors (who are particularly adept at using their own emotional experiences to create a realistic mood), based on the work of Ekman et al (20). This technique allowed the mood states to be consistent across subjects, intense, sustained, and personalized (16). It also provided a means by which subjects could incorporate predetermined behavioral, cognitive, and physical manifestations of mood states.…”

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“…Based on our initial study (16), we hypothesized that the number and function of circulating NK cells would increase and that the number of T cells (suppressor/cytotoxic) and proliferative response to the mitogen phytohemagglutinin (PHA) would change immediately after any type of experimentally induced mood state compared with a neutral state. We also investigated the impact of mood on other lymphocyte phenotypes.…”

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Immunological and physiological changes associated with induced positive and negative mood.

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Psychosomatic Medicine

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Functional and phenotypic immunological parameters were examined before, at the end of, and 20 minutes after the induction of positive and negative mood states, varied for arousal level, and a neutral state. The subjects were 14 male actors who experienced each condition on a different day. Compared with a neutral condition, all mood states affected several immune parameters (e.g., natural killer cell percentage and activity and percentage of suppressor/cytotoxic T cells), regardless of the valence or arousal level of the mood induced. The only immune variable differentially sensitive to positive and negative mood states was the proliferative response to the mitogen phytohemagglutinin; the response increased after positive moods and decreased after negative moods. Analysis of covariance for repeated measures indicated that heart rate, alone or in combination with physical activity and cortisol levels, had an impact on mood effects for most of the immune parameters investigated.

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Immunological and physiological changes associated with induced positive and negative mood.

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“…A number of experiments have utilized actors because their speci c talents allowed the researchers to look at issues unrelated to expertise. For example, Futterman et al (1992) investigated the effects of emotion on the immune system, using actors as experimental participants because they could produce emotion on demand. The researchers found that actors' imagined emotional experiences had a demonstrable effect on blood chemistry.…”

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The Expertise of Professional Actors: A review of recent research

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2002

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This review summarizes recent research into the mental processes of professional actors. A number of studies employing various paradigms have provided converging evidence that actors regard their jobs as doing "for real" whatever the playscript calls upon the character to do (e.g. threatening someone, attering someone, ridiculing someone, etc.). The role acquisition process appears to take place in two distinct stages. First, the actors extract from the script the underlying intentions of the characters, a procedure that often calls for extensive analysis, because the intentions in well-written plays are rarely explicit or obvious. The deep processing involved calls upon such learning factors as perspective taking, problem solving, elaboration, causal attribution, distinctiveness, and overlearning. Following the analytical phase, actors rehearse and perform their roles by using an approach the authors call "active experiencing" which involves activation of those cognitive-emotive-motor processes inherent in all genuine human transactions. This article also reviews studies that speci cally examined the nature of actors' on-stage emotions, the contributions of actors' physical movements to performance, and certain aspects of professional acting expertise that may lead the way to increased understanding of human cognition.

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“…For example, Futterman, Kemeny, Shapiro, Polonsky and Fahey (1992) Knapp et al (1992) found that recollection of both negative and positive experiences caused a decrease in T cell mitogen response. Even studies that find evidence for laboratory induced stress having detrimental effects on immunity, do not find that these results are consistent across all immune parameters.…”

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The effects of laboratory-induced mood on secretory immunoglobulin A in saliva

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Dubitsky, Susan Strum, "The effects of laboratory-induced mood on secretory immunoglobulin A in saliva" (1994 I want to thank all the undergraduate assistants who gave of themselves wholeheartedly. Rob Schendowich, Naima K. Ghany, and Lynn Herndon were among the students whose dedication and sense of responsibility were outstanding.Thanks, too, to my dear friend Ruth Weber, whose support and loyalty kept me going. My husband, Larry, deserves a medal for putting up with me through graduate school.A special thanks must go to my major professor, Dr. Rotton, for having the confidence in me to give me the chance to do this project. concentration. The effect of induced mood on blood pressure and heart rate was also examined. There were no significant main effects, but gender interacted with mood induction such that females experienced an increase in blood pressure in the positive mood induction condition. There was no significant effect of method of mood induction on SIgA, blood pressure, or heart rate. Stable personality traits, however, moderated the effects of mood induction. Persons who scored higher on depression and neuroticism, and lower on positive affect had significantly higher SIgA concentrations in the negative mood condition. There were no significant effects of vi personality traits on SIgA levels in the positive mood condition, nor did they interact with induced mood to change blood pressure or heart rate. These data suggest that although SIgA concentration may not be subject to short-term laboratory mood manipulations alone, changes in SIgA concentration may be associated with an interaction of stable personality traits and mood state, especially in the case induced negative mood.vii

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Immunological variability associated with experimentally-induced positive and negative affective states

Cited by 46 publications

References 21 publications

Immunological and physiological changes associated with induced positive and negative mood.

Immunological and physiological changes associated with induced positive and negative mood.

The Expertise of Professional Actors: A review of recent research

The effects of laboratory-induced mood on secretory immunoglobulin A in saliva

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