Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flight.

By S. Taylor, L. C. Klein, B. P. Lewis, T. Gruenewald, R. Gurung, John A. Updegraff, L. Tara, Regan A R Gruenewald, John A Gurung, Updegraff and 20 more. Psychology Review, 2000

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Vigor as a Positive Affect at Work: Conceptualizing Vigor, Its Relations with Related Constructs, and Its Antecedents and Consequences (2011, background): “In comparison, women may experience higher levels of emotional energy than men because women are more likely to “tend and befriend” (Taylor et al., 2000).”
Rethinking women's sexual orientation: An interdisciplinary, relationship-focused approach (2001, neutral): “There is growing evidence that females are more likely than males to respond to stress by affiliating with others, specifically with other females (Taylor et al., 2000).”
Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism (2011, background): “Support for the idea that oxytocin motivates in-group favoritism would qualify work showing that oxytocin associates with (indiscriminate) social approach (22, 23), trust, benevolence, and prosociality (24).”
Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: when romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals. (2007, background): “…heroism and risk-taking involve a less favorable ratio of benefits to costs (e.g., endangering offspring who depend on the mother’s proximity, Taylor et al., 2000) and might therefore not yield an equivalent mating advantage In the first two studies, romantic motives increased altruistic…”
Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review (2010, background): “More focused comparisons are needed to ascertain whether or not compassion and love share a common autonomic response profile that motivates social approach (e.g., potentially in vagus nerve response or oxytocin release; see Carter, 1998; Taylor et al., 2000).”
Oxytocin receptor genetic variation relates to empathy and stress reactivity in humans (2009, background): “Results As it has been proposed that oxytocin evolved to influence social and stress profiles of males and females differently (25), we verified that there were no significant interactions of rs53576 with gender in our analyses and display our findings for males and females separately for illustrati”
Sex Differences in Coping Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review and an Examination of Relative Coping (2002, background): “This neuroendocrine activity is expressed by a pattern of tend-and-befriend rather than fight-or-flight (Taylor et al., 2000).”
Sociality of the dispersing sex: The nature of social bonds in West African female chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes (2009, neutral): “In addition to the direct benefits of bonding outlined above, a stable network of social bonds has been shown to enhance individual well-being (Seeman 1996; Taylor et al. 2000) and reduce stress (Engh et al.”
Bio-behavioral Synchrony: A Model for Integrating Biological and Microsocial Behavioral Processes in the Study of Parenting (2012, background): “Possibly, the well-known positive effects of attachment bonds on the individual’s well-being and health may relate to the positive impact of close social contacts on organizing the individual’s affiliation-related physiology (Taylor et al., 2000).”
Motivation concepts in behavioral neuroscience. (2004, background): “[162] Taylor SE, Klein LC, Lewis BP, Gruenewald TL, Gurung RAR,”
Sex differences in stress responses: social rejection versus achievement stress. (2002, background): “…approach, Taylor and colleagues proposed that women's stress response may be better characterized by " tend and befriend, " involving nurturant activities and the creation of social networks, whereas men's may involve the more traditional " fight or flight " response (Taylor et al 2000).”
Adjustment to College Among Trauma Survivors: An Exploratory Study of Resilience (2004, result): “This fits with previous stress research that highlights the key role of support and affiliation as a stress response for females (e.g., Taylor et al., 2000 ) and work that highlights how some male trauma survivors may be at risk for lesser account making (e.g., Orbuch, Harvey, Davis, & Merbach, 199”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “For instance, when coping with stressors (Folkman, Lazarus, Dunkel-Schetter, DeLongis, & Gruen, 1986; Rimé, Mesquita, Boca, & Philippot, 1991; Taylor et al., 2000) or experiencing happiness (Gable & 3 Gable and colleagues (e.g., Gable & Reis, 2010) used the term capitalization to describe targets’…”