Abstract
Correlations between dominant personality traits and certain diseases or high-risk factors for diseases mediated by the immune system have been postulated and, to some extent, verified for over 30 years. We believed that certain correlations between immunological target parameters and personality traits exist even in healthy subjects. Determining the personality structure and an immunological profile in 69 volunteers, we found significant differences for leukocytes and the subpopulations CD4, CD13, HLA-DR, and pronounced differences for CD20, CD14 and the interleukines IL 2 and sIL-2R between the dominant and submissive subjects. Furthermore, case analysis of extreme subjects showed that dominant subjects exhibited an apparently more activated immune system than did submissives. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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