News tagged with social stress
Social status promotes faster wound healing in wild baboons
Turns out it's not bad being top dog, or in this case, top baboon.
May 21, 2012 |
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Physics Model Determines Dynamics of Friends and Enemies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes friends can become enemies and enemies become friends, and it’s difficult to understand exactly how or why the changes took place. A new study shows that when the shifting of alliances ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Mathematical model shows how groups split into factions
(PhysOrg.com) -- The school dance committee is split; one group wants an "Alice in Wonderland" theme; the other insists on "Vampire Jamboree." Mathematics could have predicted it.
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Study shows disorder may cause an increase stereotyping
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study performed by Dutch social scientists Diederik Stapel and Siegwart Lindenberg, of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, suggests that people may resort to stereotyping to cope with ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Stress make women social and men antisocial
(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies by scientists at the University of Southern California have found that while stress may result in a universal physiological "fight or flight response" there are gender differences in psychological ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 23, 2010 |
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New brain nerve cells key to stress resilience, researchers find
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found new clues that might help explain why some people are more susceptible to stress than others.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Birds in captivity lose hippocampal mass
(PhysOrg.com) -- Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study.
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Early life stress has effects at the molecular level
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of mice suggests that stress and trauma in early life can have an impact on the genes and result in behavioral problems later in life.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Resilience factor low in depression, protects mice from stress
Scientists have discovered a mechanism that helps to explain resilience to stress, vulnerability to depression and how antidepressants work. The new findings, in the reward circuit of mouse and human brains, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 16, 2010 |
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New research links social stress to harmful fat deposits, heart disease
A new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that social stress could be an important precursor to heart disease by causing the body to deposit more fat in the abdominal cavity, speeding ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Link between over-indebtedness and obesity identified
Scientists at the University of Mainz have discovered a close correlation between over-indebtedness and obesity. According to the report published in the journal BMC Public Health, over-indebted Germans are more likely to be ...
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Brain emotion circuit sparks as teen girls size up peers
What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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US Navy culture leads to heavy drinking
The nature of the U.S. Navy workplace leads to higher heavy drinking for sailors than for civilians, according to an article in the May issue of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research published by SAGE.
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Bad jobs: Why they make some women bad moms
(PhysOrg.com) -- The kind of job a woman has may be just as important as whether she works or not when it comes to the well-being of her child.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 01, 2009 |
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Gulf oil spill similar to Exxon Valdez in initial social and mental impacts, study finds
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused social disruption and psychological stress among Gulf residents that is similar to the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez spill and the impacts are likely to persist for ...
Apr 19, 2011 |
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