In Search of Integrated Specificity: Comment on Denson, Spanovic, and Miller (2009)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 854-856

  Miller, Gregory E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cortisol; emotion; immune function; stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD; COGNITION; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; EMOTION; FEAR; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIVIDUALITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MENTAL STRESS; META ANALYSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EMOTIONS; FEAR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIVIDUALITY; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70449476502     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017440     Document Type: Article

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