Perceived social support has been hypothesized to protect against the pathogenic effects of stress. How such protection might be conferred, however, is not well understood. Using a sample of 404 healthy adults, we examined the roles of perceived social support and received hugs in buffering against interpersonal stress-induced susceptibility to infectious disease. Perceived support was assessed by...
This dataset was generated from a survey of 720 participants (366 females, 354 males) recruited from Qualtrics in December of 2017 when the #MeToo movement was still at its peak. The survey examined people's reactions to apologies offered by prominent public figures in response to allegations of sexual misconduct (ranging from sexual harassment to rape) with a focus on whether their implicit theories...