Sheldon Cohen

{{Short description|American psychologist}} {{About||the Canadian animator and book illustrator|Sheldon Cohen (artist)|the IRS Commissioner|Sheldon S. Cohen}}

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'''Sheldon Cohen''' (born October 11, 1947) is the Robert E. Doherty University Professor of Psychology at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. He is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Stress, Immunity and Disease. He is a member of the Department of Psychology at [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Mellon]] and adjunct professor of Psychiatry and of Pathology at the [[University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine]].

== Background == Cohen received a [[Bachelor of Philosophy]] degree from Monteith College at [[Wayne State University]] ([[Detroit]]) in 1969, and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[social psychology]] from [[New York University]] in 1973.<ref name="CV">{{Cite web|url=http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~scohen/vita.html|title=SHELDON COHEN, PH.D. – CURRICULUM VITAE|date=May 2018|website=PSY.CMU.edu|access-date=February 9, 2019|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="SPNcohen">{{Cite work|url=http://cohen.socialpsychology.org/|title=Sheldon Cohen|last=Plous|first=Scott|work=Social Psychology Network|access-date=February 9, 2019|language=en-US}}</ref> He was Assistant to associate professor of psychology at the [[University of Oregon]] from 1973 through 1982, and has been a professor of psychology at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] ([[Pittsburgh]]) since 1982.<ref name="ORCID">{{Cite web|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2248-4600|title=Sheldon Cohen – ORCID|website=ORCID.org|access-date=February 9, 2019|language=en-US}}</ref> He was named the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology in 2003. Since 1990 he has also been an adjunct professor of Pathology and Psychiatry at the [[University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine]] as well as a member of the [[University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute|Pittsburgh Cancer Institute]]; from 1999 to 2010 he served as a member of the executive board of the [[National Institutes of Health]] Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center. In 1992 he served as the interim director of [[University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute|Pittsburgh Cancer Institute's]] Behavioral Medicine Program and was the co-director of Pittsburgh's Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Center from 1990 to 1999. He was also a member of the core groups of the John D. and Catherine T. [[MacArthur Foundation]] Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health and of the [[John Fetzer|Fetzer Institute's]] Working Group on Psychosocial Factors in Asthma, and served as chair of the [[Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]]'s [http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/grant-records/2001/08/studying-the-relationship-between-social-connectedness-and-healt.html/ Planning Group on Social Connectedness and Health].

Cohen was elected to the [[Institute of Medicine]] of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 2004. He is the recipient of the [[American Psychological Association]]'s (APA) [[APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology|Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology]] (2004), the American Psychological Society's (Now [[Association for Psychological Science]]) [[James McKeen Cattell]] Fellow Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Research in [[Applied Psychology]] (2002), the APA's (Division 38) Award for Outstanding Contributions to [[Health Psychology]] as a Junior (1987) and Senior (2008) Investigator, the American Psychosomatic Society's [[Patricia Barchas|Patricia R. Barchas]] Award for Significant Contributions to the Study of the Impact of [[social behavior|Social Behavior]] on [[Physiology]] (2006). He has received the [[National Institute of Mental Health]]'s Research Scientist Development (1987–1997), and Senior Scientist Awards (1997–2002). He was an [[American Psychological Association]] Distinguished Lecturer, and a British Psychological Association Senior Fellow Lecturer. His paper entitled "Social Support, Stress and the Buffering Hypothesis"<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Wills TA |title=Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis|journal=Psychological Bulletin|date=September 1985|volume=98|issue=2|pages=310–357|pmid=3901065|doi=10.1037/0033-2909.98.2.310|s2cid=18137066}}</ref> was named a [[Current Contents]] Citation Classic; in 2003 he was named one of Science's Most Cited Authors by the [[Institute for Scientific Information]].

Cohen's work focuses on the roles of [[stress (biology)|stress]], [[emotion]]s, [[social support]] systems and [[personality psychology|personality]]<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Neil|first=John|title=VITAL SIGNS: TESTING; Right Attitudes Keep Colds at Bay|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/health/vital-signs-testing-right-attitudes-keep-colds-at-bay.html?scp=15&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 29, 2003}}</ref> in [[health]] and well-being.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bails|first=Jennifer|title=Stressed Out|journal=Carnegie Mellon Today|date=April 2008|volume=5|issue=2|url=http://www.carnegiemellontoday.com/article.asp?aid=538&page=0|access-date=31 March 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928161650/http://www.carnegiemellontoday.com/article.asp?aid=538&page=0|archive-date=28 September 2011}}</ref><ref>Cohen, S., & Syme, S. L. (Eds.) (1985). [https://www.amazon.com/Social-Support-Health-Sheldon-Cohen/dp/0121788202/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298643957&sr=1-1/ ''Social support and health'']. New York: Academic Press.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Pressman|first=SD|author2=Cohen S |title=Does positive affect influence health?|journal=Psychological Bulletin|date=November 2005|volume=131|issue=6|pages=925–971|pmid=16351329|doi=10.1037/0033-2909.131.6.925|s2cid=7069750}}</ref><ref>Cohen, S., Evans, G. W., Krantz, D. S., & Stokols, D. (1986). [https://www.amazon.com/Behavior-Health-Environmental-Stress-Sheldon/dp/0306421380/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298643912&sr=1-1/ ''Behavior, health and environmental stress'']. New York: Plenum.</ref> He published pioneering theoretical and empirical work on the effects of [[aircraft noise]] on health and development of schoolchildren,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Evans GW |author3=Krantz DS |author4=Stokols D |title=Physiological, motivational, and cognitive effects of aircraft noise on children: moving from the laboratory to the field|journal=American Psychologist|date=March 1980|volume=35|issue=3|pages=231–243|pmid=7377650|doi=10.1037/0003-066x.35.3.231|url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt50d8c9b7/qt50d8c9b7.pdf?t=owj7nr}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Brody|first=Jane|title=Noise Poses a Growing Threat, Affecting Hearing and Behavior|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/16/science/noise-poses-a-growing-threat-affecting-hearing-and-behavior.html?scp=76&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 16, 1982}}</ref> and on the roles of [[stress (biology)|stress]] and [[social network]]s<ref>{{cite news|last=Gilbert|first=Susan|title=Social Ties Reduce Risk of a Cold|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/25/us/social-ties-reduce-risk-of-a-cold.html?scp=49&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 25, 1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gilbert|first=Susan|title=Make a Friend and Fight a Cold|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/29/weekinreview/make-a-friend-and-fight-a-cold.html?scp=51&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 29, 1997}}</ref> in physical and mental health.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|title=Psychosocial models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease|journal=Health Psychology|year=1988|volume=7|issue=3|pages=269–297|pmid=3289916|doi=10.1037/0278-6133.7.3.269|s2cid=25317964}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|title=Social relationships and health|journal=American Psychologist|date=November 2004|volume=59|issue=8|pages=676–684|pmid=15554821|doi=10.1037/0003-066X.59.8.676}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Janicki-Deverts D |title=Can We Improve Our Physical Health by Altering Our Social Networks?|journal=Perspectives on Psychological Science|date=July 1, 2009|volume=4|issue=4|pages=375–378|pmid=20161087|doi=10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01141.x|pmc=2744289}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Goleman|first=Daniel|title=New Light on How Stress Erodes Health|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/15/science/new-light-on-how-stress-erodes-health.html?scp=75&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 15, 1992}}</ref> With colleagues he has developed a number of [[psychological testing|scales]] assessing psychological and social variables including the [[Perceived Stress Scale]] (PSS), the Interpersonal Support Evaluation Scale (ISEL), the Social Network Index (SNI), the Partner Interaction Questionnaire (PIQ) and the Cohen-Hoberman Inventory of Physical Symptoms (CHIPS).<ref>Cohen, S., Underwood, L., & Gottlieb, B (Eds.) (2000). [https://www.amazon.com/Social-Support-Measurement-Intervention-Scientists/dp/019512670X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298643803&sr=1-1/ ''Social support measurement and interventions: A guide for health and social scientists'']. New York: Oxford.</ref><ref>Cohen, S., Kessler, R. C., & Underwood Gordon, L. (Eds.) (1995). [https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Stress-Health-Social-Scientists/dp/0195121201/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298643868&sr=1-1/ ''Measuring stress: A guide for health and social scientists'']. New York: Oxford.</ref> Over the last 30 years he has studied the effects of psychological<ref>{{cite news|last=Raube|first=Shilo|title=The Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill on Long-Term Health|url=http://www.hss.cmu.edu/pressreleases/pressreleases/cohenoilspill.html|access-date=29 March 2011|newspaper=H&SS News|agency=Carnegie Mellon University, College of Humanities & Social Sciences}}</ref> [[stress (biology)|stress]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pedersen|first=A|author2=Zachariae R |author3=Bovbjerg DH |title=Influence of Psychological Stress on Upper Respiratory Infection—A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies|journal=Psychosomatic Medicine|date=October 2010|volume=72|issue=8|pages=823–832|pmid=20716708|doi=10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181f1d003|s2cid=205978469}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Brody|first=Jane|title=To Avoid Catching a Cold, Don't Worry About It|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/29/us/to-avoid-catching-a-cold-don-t-worry-about-it.html?scp=82&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 29, 1991}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Brody|first=Jane|title=A Cold Fact: High Stress Can Make You Sick|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/12/science/a-cold-fact-high-stress-can-make-you-sick.html?scp=48&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 12, 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Parker-Pope|first=Tara|title=Giving Stress More Respect|url=http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/giving-stress-more-respect/?scp=9&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 12, 2007}}</ref> [[social support]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Ramirez|first=Anthony|title=You Were Right in Saying Some People Make You Sick|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/15/weekinreview/you-were-right-in-saying-some-people-make-you-sick.html?scp=13&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 15, 1996}}</ref> and [[social status]] on [[immunity (medical)|immunity]] and susceptibility to [[infectious disease]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Williamson GM |title=Stress and infectious disease in humans|journal=Psychological Bulletin|date=January 1991|volume=109|issue=1|pages=5–24|pmid=2006229|doi=10.1037/0033-2909.109.1.5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Adler|first=NE|author2=Boyce T |author3=Chesney MA |author4=Cohen S |author5=Folkman S |author6=Kahn RL |author7=Syme SL |title=Socioeconomic status and health. The challenge of the gradient|journal=American Psychologist|date=January 1994|volume=49|issue=1|pages=15–24|pmid=8122813|doi=10.1037/0003-066x.49.1.15|citeseerx=10.1.1.336.6204|s2cid=14676607 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Adler|first=Jerry|author2=Kalb C |author3=Rogers A |title=Stress|journal=Newsweek|date=June 14, 1999|url=http://www.newsweek.com/1999/06/13/stress.html|access-date=28 March 2011}}</ref> This work attempts to identify the neuroendocrine, immune,<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiss|first=Rick|title=Linking Physical and Emotional Health; Researchers Share Ideas on How the Mind Affects the Body's Immune System|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72216237.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+11%2C+1994&author=Rick+Weiss&pub=The+Washington+Post+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&edition=&startpage=z.08&desc=Linking+Physical+and+Emotional+Health%3B+Researchers+Share+Ideas+on+How+the+Mind+Affects+the+Body%27s+Immune+System|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712094329/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72216237.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+11,+1994&author=Rick+Weiss&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=z.08&desc=Linking+Physical+and+Emotional+Health;+Researchers+Share+Ideas+on+How+the+Mind+Affects+the+Body's+Immune+System|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 12, 2012|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 11, 1994}}</ref> and behavioral<ref>{{cite news|last=Brody|first=Jane|title=Alcohol and Cold Risk|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/20/opinion/alcohol-and-cold-risk.html?scp=91&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 20, 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Associated Press|title=Preventing colds may be as easy as vitamin ZZZ|url=http://www.keprtv.com/news/health/37512679.html|access-date=29 March 2011|date=January 13, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927215456/http://www.keprtv.com/news/health/37512679.html|archive-date=27 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=CBS News|title=Poor sleep increases risk of getting sick|url=http://www.cbs12.com/news/sleep-4712902-cold-time.html|access-date=29 March 2011|agency=Associated Press|date=January 12, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003035844/http://www.cbs12.com/news/sleep-4712902-cold-time.html|archive-date=3 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Fiedler|first=Julie|title=Want to Avoid a Cold? Sleep|url=http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/health/Want-to-Avoid-a-Cold-Sleep.html|access-date=29 March 2011|date=January 15, 2009|agency=NBC Philadelphia}}</ref> pathways that link [[stress (biology)|stress]], [[personality psychology|personality]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Hitti|first=Miranda|title=Study: Happiness Is Good For Health: Research Shows Happy People Resist Colds And Flu Better Than Others|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-happiness-is-good-for-health/|access-date=29 March 2011|date=November 10, 2006|agency=WebMD}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Jamie|title=Happy People More Immune to Common Cold: New Study Shows Happiness Fights the Common Cold|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdFlu/story?id=116714&page=1|access-date=29 March 2011|date=July 22, 2006|agency=ABC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Snyderman|first=Nancy|title=Is happiness more than a state of mind? Science suggests it's also a matter of health|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17488273|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323073138/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17488273|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 23, 2013|access-date=29 March 2011|date=March 6, 2007|agency=NBC News}}</ref> and [[social network]]s to disease susceptibility.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bakalar|first=Nicholas|title=Vital Signs: Patterns: Trying to Avoid a Cold? Go Back to Bed|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/research/13patt.html?scp=8&sq=sheldon+cohen&st=nyt|access-date=28 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 12, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Herbert|first=TB|author2=Cohen S |title=Depression and immunity: a meta-analytic review|journal=Psychological Bulletin|date=May 1993|volume=113|issue=3|pages=472–486|pmid=8316610|doi=10.1037/0033-2909.113.3.472}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Doyle WJ |author3=Alper CM |author4=Janicki-Deverts D |author5=Turner RB |title=Sleep habits and susceptibility to the common cold|journal=Archives of Internal Medicine|date=January 12, 2009|volume=169|issue=1|pages=62–67|pmid=19139325|doi=10.1001/archinternmed.2008.505|pmc=2629403}}</ref> He is also involved in studies of the effects of psychosocial factors on the onset and progression of [[asthma]], and on the effectiveness of [[social support]] interventions in facilitating psychological adjustment and disease progression in women with [[breast cancer]]. His current work focuses on how interpersonal dispositions and behaviors influence [[immunity (medical)|immunity]], host resistance to [[infectious disease]], and on identifying biological pathways linking stress to disease.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Doyle WJ |author3=Turner R |author4=Alper CM |author5=Skoner DP |title=Sociability and susceptibility to the common cold|journal=Psychological Science|date=September 2003|volume=14|issue=5|pages=389–395|pmid=12930466|doi=10.1111/1467-9280.01452|s2cid=18742285|url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/6618116}}</ref><ref name="Cohen">{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Janicki-Deverts D |author3=Turner RB |author4=Casselbrant ML |author5=Li-Korotky H |author6=Epel ES |author7=Doyle WJ |title=Association between telomere length and experimentally induced upper respiratory viral infection in healthy adults|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|date=February 20, 2013|volume=309|issue=7|pages=699–705|pmid=23423415|doi=10.1001/jama.2013.613 |pmc=3786437}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Janicki-Deverts D |author3=Doyle WJ |author4=Miller GE |author5=Frank E |author6=Rabin BS |author7=Turner RB |title=Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease risk|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date=April 17, 2012|volume=109|issue=16|pages=5995–5999|pmid=22474371|doi=10.1073/pnas.1118355109 |pmc=3341031|bibcode=2012PNAS..109.5995C|doi-access=free}}</ref> His research has been published in the [[New England Journal of Medicine]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Tyrrell DA |author3=Smith AP |title=Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|date=August 1991|volume=325|issue=9|pages=606–612|pmid=1713648|doi=10.1056/NEJM199108293250903|s2cid=26065898|doi-access=free}}</ref> the [[Journal of the American Medical Association]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S |author2=Doyle WJ |author3=Skoner DP |author4=Rabin BS |author5=Gwaltney JM Jr|title=Social ties and susceptibility to the common cold|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|date=June 25, 1997|volume=277|issue=24|pages=1940–1944|pmid=9200634|doi=10.1001/jama.277.24.1940}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Glaser|first=R|author2=Rabin B |author3=Chesney M |author4=Cohen S |author5=Natelson B |title=Stress-induced immunomodulation: implications for infectious diseases?|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|date=June 23, 1999|volume=281|issue=24|pages=2268–2270|pmid=10386538|doi=10.1001/jama.281.24.2268|s2cid=36068877|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Janicki-Deverts D |author3=Miller GE |title=Psychological stress and disease|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|date=October 10, 2007|volume=298|issue=14|pages=1685–1687|pmid=17925521|doi=10.1001/jama.298.14.1685|s2cid=12159960}}</ref><ref name="Cohen" /> the [[Journal of the National Cancer Institute]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Rabin BS |title=Psychologic stress, immunity, and cancer|journal=Journal of the National Cancer Institute|date=January 1998|volume=90|issue=1|pages=3–4|pmid=9428772|doi=10.1093/jnci/90.1.3|s2cid=43055606|doi-access=free}}</ref> and the [[American Journal of Public Health]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Tyrrell DA |author3=Russell MA |author4=Jarvis MJ |author5=Smith AP |title=Smoking, alcohol consumption, and susceptibility to the common cold|journal=American Journal of Public Health|date=September 1993|volume=83|issue=9|pages=1277–1283|pmid=8363004|pmc=1694990|doi=10.2105/AJPH.83.9.1277}}</ref> in addition to other medical, public health, and sociology journals as well as in numerous psychology journals.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=S|author2=Lichtenstein E |author3=Prochaska JO |author4=Rossi JS |author5=Gritz ER |author6=Carr CR |author7=Orleans CT |author8=Schoenbach VJ |author9=Biener L |author10=Abrams D |title=Debunking myths about self-quitting. Evidence from 10 prospective studies of persons who attempt to quit smoking by themselves|journal=American Psychologist|date=November 1989|volume=44|issue=11|pages=1355–1365|pmid=2589730|doi=10.1037/0003-066x.44.11.1355|s2cid=27409978}}</ref>

== Awards and memberships == * 1987: [http://www.health-psych.org/ American Psychological Association's (Division 38)] Junior Investigator Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology * 2002: American Psychological Society's (Now [[Association for Psychological Science]]) James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Research in Applied Psychology [http://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards/cohen.html] * 2003: [http://isihighlycited.com/ Highly Cited Author, ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)] * 2004: [http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases04/041018_cohen.html Elected to IOM (Institute of Medicine)] * 2004: [http://www.apa.org/ American Psychological Association], Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology [http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2003/D/20031831.html]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Sheldon Cohen: award for distinguished scientific contributions|journal=American Psychologist|date=November 2004|volume=59|issue=8|pages=673–675|pmid=15554820|doi=10.1037/0003-066X.59.8.673a}}</ref> * 2006: American Psychosomatic Society's Patricia R. Barchas Award for Significant Contributions to the Study of the Impact of Social Behavior on Physiology * 2008: [http://www.health-psych.org/ American Psychological Association's (Division 38)] Senior Investigator Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology * 1996-2010: [http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/ Member, Core Group John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation], [http://www.macfound.org/networks/research-network-on-socioeconomic-status-health// Network on Social Economic (Socioeconomic) Status and Health.] * 2014: [http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/arc/2/1/20// Named one of the 100 Extremely Eminent Psychologists of the Modern Era]<ref>{{cite journal|title=An incomplete list of eminent psychologists of the modern era|journal=Archives of Scientific Psychology|date=August 2014|volume=2|issue=1|pages=20–31|doi=10.1037/arc0000006|last1=Diener|first1=Ed|last2=Oishi|first2=Shigehiro|last3=Park|first3=Jungyeun|doi-access=free}}</ref>

== See also == * [[Perceived Stress Scale]]

== References == {{Reflist|2}}

== External links == * {{Official website}} * [http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~scohen/index.html Laboratory for the Study of Stress, Immunity, and Disease] * [http://cohen.socialpsychology.org/ Sheldon Cohen] at ''Social Psychology Network''

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