About the Authors
- Jonathan A. Shaffer
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Affiliation Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Elissa Epel
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Min Suk Kang
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Affiliation Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Siqin Ye
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Affiliation Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Joseph E. Schwartz
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Affiliations Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
- Karina W. Davidson
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Affiliation Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Susan Kirkland
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Affiliation Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Lawrence S. Honig
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Affiliations Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Daichi Shimbo
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* E-mail: ds2231@columbia.edu
Affiliation Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Elissa Epel’s competing interest as a co-founder of Telomere Health, Inc., which offers commercial telomere length measurement, does not alter the authors' adherence to any of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KWD SK JES DS. Performed the experiments: MSK LH. Analyzed the data: JAS JES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSK LH. Wrote the paper: JAS. Made critical intellectual contributions to the development of the manuscript: EE SY JES KWD LH DS.