This week we’ll be reading this review article by Cohen et al. 1991

Please read the article closely, answer the following questions:

1. Provide the full reference to this article using this format: Author 1 Last Name, First name initials; Author 2 Last Name, First name initials, (Year of publication). Article title. Journal name in italics Volume#(Issue#): start_page:end_page.
2. Is this article primary or secondary literature? If secondary literature, is it a meta-analysis? See: how to distinguish primary vs secondary literature.
3. What is the hypothesis being tested?
4. What is the experimental approach to testing the hypothesis? What was measured?
5. What were the important quantitative results?
6. Explain whether the results support or contradict the hypothesis (based on the discussion section).
7. What do the results mean in terms of the broader issues that motivated the study (based on the conclusions)?
8. This article was published in 1991 while Sapolsky’s book was published in 2003. At that time, the mechanism by which stress affected the immune system was not as thoroughly known as it is now. From the readings you have done in this course, what mechanisms have you learned by which stress affects the immune system?