David P Skoner

Biographic Data

ID3424121
NAMEDavid P Skoner
GIVEN NAMESDavid P
FAMILY NAMESkoner
SIGNATURESKONER D P
AFFILIATIONSAnna Needs Neuroblastoma Answers
ORCID0000-0002-5463-0556
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX2

  • Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Host Resistance to Infectious Illness in Adulthood

    Sheldon Cohen, William J Doyle et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2004

    OBJECTIVE: Low childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is a risk factor for adult morbidity and mortality primarily attributable to cardiovascular disease. Here, we examine whether childhood SES is associated with adult host resistance to infectious illness, and whether the effect is limited to a critical period of low SES exposure, can be undone by changes in childhood SES, and is explained by adult SES. METHODS: Three hundred thirty-four healthy v…

  • Emotional Style and Susceptibility to the Common Cold

    Sheldon Cohen, William J Doyle et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2003

    OBJECTIVE: It has been hypothesized that people who typically report experiencing negative emotions are at greater risk for disease and those who typically report positive emotions are at less risk. We tested these hypotheses for host resistance to the common cold. METHODS: Three hundred thirty-four healthy volunteers aged 18 to 54 years were assessed for their tendency to experience positive emotions such as happy, pleased, and relaxed; and for …

  • Psychological Stress, Cytokine Production, and Severity of Upper Respiratory Illness

    Sheldon Cohen, William J Doyle et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1999

    OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to assess the role of psychological stress in the expression of illness among infected subjects and to test the plausibility of local proinflammatory cytokine production as a pathway linking stress to illness. METHODS: After completing a measure of psychological stress, 55 subjects were experimentally infected with an influenza A virus. Subjects were monitored in quarantine daily for upper respiratory sympt…

  • The impact of personality on the reporting of unfounded symptoms and illness

    Pamela J Feldman, Sheldon Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1999Cited by: 4

    This study examined the role of personality in the reporting of symptoms and illness not supported by underlying pathology. After assessment of the Big Five personality factors, 276 healthy volunteers were inoculated with a common cold virus. On each of the following 5 days, objective indicators of pathology, self-reported symptoms, and self-reported illness onset were assessed. Neuroticism was directly associated with reports of unfounded (witho…

  • Types of stressors that increase susceptibility to the common cold in healthy adults.

    Sheldon Cohen, Ellen Frank et al.ARTICLEHealth Psychology1998

    Two-hundred seventy-six volunteers completed a life stressor interview and psychological questionnaires and provided blood and urine samples. They were then inoculated with common cold viruses and monitored for the onset of disease. Although severe acute stressful life events (less than 1 month long) were not associated with developing colds, severe chronic stressors (1 month or longer) were associated with a substantial increase in risk of disea…

  • State and trait negative affect as predictors of objective and subjective symptoms of respiratory viral infections

    Sheldon Cohen, William J Doyle et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1995Cited by: 10

    State and trait negative affect (NA) were measured in healthy people immediately before an illness was induced through exposure to a respiratory virus. State NA, disease-specific health complaints (e.g., runny nose, congestion, and sneezing), and an associated objective marker of disease severity (mucus secretion weights) were assessed daily during the illness. Baseline trait and state NA were both associated with increased numbers of subsequent …