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  • Acute social stress is known to activate the immune system.
  • Limited research exists on non-social acute stressors' impact on immune responses.
  • Few studies have isolated stressor characteristics or examined simultaneous affect changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate immune system activation by predictable and unpredictable non-social stressors.
  • To disentangle the effects of stressor predictability on immune markers.
  • To explore the association between changes in affect and immune response.

Main Methods:

  • Between-subjects design using predictable and unpredictable electric shock as stressors.
  • Salivary cytokines (IL-6, IL-8, IL-1β, TNF-α) measured to assess immune activation.
  • Multimodal assessment of defensive motivation, attention, and self-reported affect.

Main Results:

  • Threat manipulation successfully enhanced defensive motivation, attention, and affect.
  • Both predictable and unpredictable threat increased IL-8 and decreased IL-6.
  • Increased negative affect correlated with a greater overall immune response.

Conclusions:

  • Acute non-social stress can enhance immune system activation.
  • Immune response to stress is influenced by individual affective changes.
  • Future research should consider stressor type and emotional state in psychoneuroimmunology.