Sexual preference is influenced by males' adolescent social stress history and social status, according to a research team including Nicole Cameron, assistant professor of psychology at Binghamton University, State University ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2017
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In humans and other social animals stress is associated with poor health and high mortality. These negative effects can be buffered by receiving social support from relatives or friends. However, the mechanisms responsible ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2016
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While male and female mice have similar responses to physical stress, research from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary, Canada, suggests females, not males, feel stressed when alone.
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2016
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Using digital technologies does not directly cause stress, but social media can increase awareness of problems facing friends and family, and this stress is "contagious," researchers said Thursday.
Social Sciences
Jan 15, 2015
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Stress in young birds makes them leave home early and occupy more central social network positions later in life, according to the latest research published today by scientists at the Universities of St Andrews and Oxford.
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2014
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When a member of the wolf pack leaves the group, the howling by those left behind isn't a reflection of stress but of the quality of their relationships. So say researchers based on a study of nine wolves from two packs living ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2013
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When the woods get crowded, female squirrels improve their offspring's odds of survival by ramping up how fast their offspring grow.
Plants & Animals
Apr 18, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A study by the universities of Manchester and Liverpool observing monkeys has found that those in the middle hierarchy suffer the most social stress. Their work suggests that the source of this stress is social ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 2, 2013
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An international research team, led by Institute of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI, has completed the sequencing, assembly and analysis of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) genome—the first mollusk genome ...
Biotechnology
Sep 19, 2012
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Turns out it's not bad being top dog, or in this case, top baboon.
Plants & Animals
May 21, 2012
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