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Reports an error in the original article by Pressman et al.(Health Psychology, 2005 [May], Vol 24 (3), 297-306. On page 303, Figure 3 is incorrect.(The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 2005-04818-009.) Antibody response to the influenza immunization was investigated in 83 1st-semester healthy university freshmen. Elevated levels of loneliness throughout the semester and small social networks were independently associated with poorer antibody response to 1 component of the vaccine. Those with both high levels of loneliness and a small social network had the lowest antibody response. Loneliness was also associated with greater psychological stress and negative affect, less positive affect, poorer sleep efficiency and quality, and elevations in circulating levels of cortisol. However, only the stress data were consistent with mediation of the loneliness-antibody response relation. None …