Kindness in the Blood: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Gene Regulatory Impact of Prosocial Behavior

Kindness in the Blood: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Gene Regulatory Impact of Prosocial Behavior

Highlights • In a randomized controlled experiment, people who performed kind acts for others showed favorable changes in immune cell gene expression profiles. • Gene expression changes represented reductions in the conserved transcriptional response to adversity (CTRA). • No significant changes in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017-07, Vol.81, p.8-13
Hauptverfasser: Nelson-Coffey, S. Katherine, Fritz, Megan M, Lyubomirsky, Sonja, Cole, Steven W
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Sprache:eng
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Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Female
Health psychology
Humans
Leukocytes - metabolism
Male
Middle Aged
Positive psychology
Psychiatry
Psychoneuroimmunology
Social Behavior
Transcriptome
Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • In a randomized controlled experiment, people who performed kind acts for others showed favorable changes in immune cell gene expression profiles. • Gene expression changes represented reductions in the conserved transcriptional response to adversity (CTRA). • No significant changes in CTRA gene expression were observed in a control condition or for people who performed kind acts for the world in general or for themselves. • These results may help explain previously observed health advantages associated with prosocial behavior.
ISSN:0306-4530
1873-3360
DOI:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.03.025