Your immune system is more socially aware than you think, says social neuroscientist and psychology professor Keely Muscatell. Investigating the interconnectedness of your mood and your inflammatory system, she offers an evolutionary reason as to why being sick may make you feel depressed — and vice versa.

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Dr. Keely Muscatell describes research on how the immune system responds to social experiences and shapes our perceptions of the social world. The immune system is listening to what’s happening in our social worlds. Based on what it hears, it adjusts its activity. The immune system can signal us to socially withdraw from strangers, and draw towa...