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Immunological Effects of Induced Shame and Guilt

Sally S. Dickerson, MA, Margaret E. Kemeny, PhD, Najib Aziz, MD, Kevin H. Kim, PhD and John L. Fahey, MD

Department of Psychology (S.S.D., M.E.K., K.H.K.), Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology (S.S.D., M.E.K. J.L.F.), Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences (M.E.K.), Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Immunology and Disease (N.A., J.L.F.), and Department of Microbiology and Immunology (J.L.F.), University of California, Los Angeles, CA. M.E.K. is now at the Department of Psychiatry/Health Psychology program, University of California, San Francisco. K.H.K. is now at the Department of Psychology in Education, University of Pittsburgh.



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  		Figure 1. Change in shame and guilt from prewriting to postwriting for the experimental and control groups for the three laboratory sessions, expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean. All values control for baseline (time 1, day 1) levels of negative emotion. ABS = Affects Balance Scale.

 


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  		Figure 2. Change in sTNF{alpha}RII (top), ß2M (middle), and cortisol (bottom) from prewriting to postwriting for the experimental and control groups for the three laboratory sessions, expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean. sTNF{alpha}RII = soluble receptor for tumor necrosis factor-alpha; ß2M = ß2-microglobulin.

 




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