Social Status and Health in Humans and Other Animals

By R. Sapolsky. 2004

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Small Animals, Social Psychology

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The Ecology of Human Development: Evolving Models for Cultural Psychology (2010, positive): “…integrate those insights into the cultural ecology of human development, building also on literatures in life history theory (Stearns, 1992; Worthman, 2003), stress and allostatic load (McEwen & Wingfield, 2003; Sapolsky, 2004), and cognitive science (Barsalou, Niedenthal, Barbey, & Ruppert, 2003).”
AVEC 2019 Workshop and Challenge: State-of-Mind, Detecting Depression with AI, and Cross-Cultural Affect Recognition (2019, background): “entiﬁc discourse [65, 66]. Despitethegivenlimitationsofthescientiﬁcassessmentofemotional states, humans constantly monitor their own and others’ emotions and organise themselves within social systems [12, 55]. Given the need for humans to socially interact and the increased occurrence of human-machi”
Culture Moderates the Relation Between Perceived Stress, Social Support, and Mental and Physical Health (2016, background): “Experiencing stress that is intense and chronic increases the likelihood of serious mental and physical health problems (Avey, Matheny, Robbins, & Jacobson, 2003; Cohen, Janicki-Deverts, & Miller, 2007; M.-F. Marin et al., 2011; Sapolsky, 2004; S. E. Taylor, 2011; Uchino, 2006).”
The ecology of human fear: survival optimization and the nervous system (2015, background): “According to the “risk allocation hypothesis,” risk of predatory attack changes over time and this has a direct effect upon intensity of vigilance and time spent foraging (Lima, 1990).”
Dominance styles mediate sex differences in Dark Triad traits (2015, background): “Human social status comes with increased access to resources and mates (Sadalla, Kenrick, & Vershure, 1987; Van Vugt, 2006) and higher socioeconomic status is typically associated with better health (Sapolsky, 2004).”
Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction (2009, background): “The view that social status itself matters to health finds some corroboration in studies of the physiological effects of low social status among nonhuman primates (Sapolsky 2005, Sapolsky 2004).”
Socioeconomic status, neighborhood disadvantage, and poverty-related stress: Prospective effects on psychological syndromes among diverse low-income families (2011, background): “Indeed, the SES-health gradient is strongest for diseases with sensitivity to stress such as heart disease, diabetes, metabolic disorders, and psychological disorders (Sapolsky, 2004).”
The Social Ladder: A Rank-Based Perspective on Social Class (2013, background): “In contrast, high-ranking nonhumans tend to enjoy more grooming partners and increased reproductive opportunities (for a review, see Sapolsky, 2004, 2005).”
A functional model of hierarchy (2011, background): “Interestingly, in unstable primate hierarchies where underlings constantly challenge dominant group members, the higher ranking members experience more chronic stress than the former, due to the need to constantly fight to defend their position (S. T. Fiske, 2010; Jordan, Galinsky, & Sivanathan, 201”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “aggressive encounters with high status conspecifics and to form alliances with more dominant conspecifics who can enhance the individual’s survival and reproductive fitness (Henrich et al., 2001; Sapolsky, 2004; Tracy & Matsumoto, 2008).”
The psychology of the COVID-19 pandemic: A group-level perspective. (2020, background): “Stress responses keep us in a constant state of fight or flight (Sapolsky, 2004).”