People who experience high inflammatory reactivity to socially stressful situations are more likely to develop depressive symptoms, according to a new study published in Psychological Science. The findings provide new insights into how interpersonal stress and inflammatory responses are related to mental illness. “We set out to discover why psychological stress, and particularly interpersonal stress, triggers depression in some people but not others,” explained study author Annelise Madison, a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at The Ohio State University. “One theory (The Social Signal Tra…
