The Influence of Social Hierarchy on Primate Health

By R. Sapolsky. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Small Animals, Social Psychology

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Power, Status, and Learning in Organizations (2011, background): “ Sapolsky (2005) summarized evidence suggesting that, across a variety of species, individuals lower in the status hierarchy exhibit more evidence of stress when the hierarchy is stable and less stress when the hierarchy is …”
The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression (2012, background): “Less aggressive males that avoid both the risks and the costs of physical aggression (Sapolsky 2005) and that use alternative means to access females”
The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment (2013, background): “Hence, similar to species with rank-inheritance or queuing conventions, rank-related patterns of glucocorticoid levels are unlikely to be the cause of reproductive suppression, and as long as there are no acute challenges, the correlation between rank and glucocorticoids could be positive, negative ”
The Neurobiology of Social Distance (2020, positive): “Nonetheless, dysregulated diurnal cortisol levels are further linked to various mental disorders including major depression, substance abuse, and post-dramatic stress disorder [152], in addition to stress-mediated effects on the immune, cardiovascular, and metabolic systems [159,160].”
Inbreeding depression in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta): genetic diversity predicts parasitism, immunocompetence, and survivorship (2008, background): “Neutrophil numbers increase in response to inflammation, infection, and stress (Morrowtesch et al. 1993; Honess et al. 2005; Sapolsky 2005).”
Not so Fast. On Some Bold Neuroscientific Claims Concerning Human Agency (2010, background): “21 It is fair to say, however, that there are also studies that, more prudently, only aim at investigating the cerebral basis of social hierarchies (and remain neutral in the evaluations of the data) or at discovering the neural mechanisms underlying the correlation between low social status and poo”
The Social Ladder: A Rank-Based Perspective on Social Class (2013, background): “, activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the release of pro-inflammatory hormones) that, if experienced over time, can be detrimental to the health and longevity of lower-class individuals (Miller et al., 2009; Sapolsky, 2005).”
Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel (2010, neutral): “6 There is a large literature on the link between social hierarchy and primate health, reviewed in Sapolsky (2005). happiness are produced when individual income falls as when the neighbor’s income increases and concludes that there are sizeable relative income effects.”
Evolution and ontogeny of stress response to social challenges in the human child (2006, background): “Relations between stress-induced cortisol response and immunosuppression are perhaps even more complex and enigmatic (Besedovsky & del Rey, 1991; Biondi & Picardi, 1999; Coe & Lubach, 2005; McEwen, 1998; Sapolsky, 2005).”
Management of disease in wild mammals (2009, background): “Furthermore, those individuals that experience the most stress may be at either the top or the bottom of the dominance hierarchy, depending on the stability of the hierarchy and potential coping mechanisms (Sapolsky 2005).”
Structural balance in the social networks of a wild mammal (2013, background): “In primates, stable social configurations may induce stress to subordinate individuals (Sapolsky 2005).”
Glucocorticoid-Mediated Phenotypes in Vertebrates : Multilevel Variation and Evolution (2016, background): “…load, see section 1.3) associated with a specific rank (Goymann &Wingfield, 2004; Rubenstein & Shen, 2009), the degree of social support an individual receives (Abbott et al., 2003), rank stability, dominance style, and the exposure to stressors associated with a particular rank (Sapolsky, 2005).”