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Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flight.
- S. Taylor, L. C. Klein, B. P. Lewis, T. Gruenewald, R. A. Gurung, J. Updegraff
- Medicine, Psychology
- Psychological review
- 29 June 2000
The human stress response has been characterized, both physiologically and behaviorally, as "fight-or-flight." Although fight-or-flight may characterize the primary physiological responses to stress… Expand
Cumulative biological risk and socio-economic differences in mortality: MacArthur studies of successful aging.
- T. Seeman, E. Crimmins, +5 authors D. Reuben
- Sociology, Medicine
- Social science & medicine
- 1 May 2004
Previous research has suggested that socio-economic status (SES) differences in mortality are only partially explained by differences in life-style, psychological and social factors. Seven year… Expand
Psychological resources, positive illusions, and health.
- S. Taylor, M. Kemeny, G. Reed, J. Bower, T. Gruenewald
- Medicine, Psychology
- The American psychologist
- 2000
Psychological beliefs such as optimism, personal control, and a sense of meaning are known to be protective of mental health. Are they protective of physical health as well? The authors present a… Expand
Acute Threat to the Social Self: Shame, Social Self-esteem, and Cortisol Activity
- T. Gruenewald, M. Kemeny, N. Aziz, J. Fahey
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychosomatic medicine
- 1 November 2004
Objective: Our Social Self Preservation Theory asserts that situations which threaten the “social self” (ie, one’s social value or standing) elicit increased feelings of low social worth (eg, shame),… Expand
When the social self is threatened: shame, physiology, and health.
- Sally S. Dickerson, T. Gruenewald, M. Kemeny
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality
- 1 December 2004
Our program of research focuses on shame as a key emotional response to "social self" threats (i.e., social evaluation or rejection). We propose that shame may orchestrate specific patterns of… Expand
History of socioeconomic disadvantage and allostatic load in later life.
- T. Gruenewald, A. Karlamangla, +4 authors T. Seeman
- Psychology, Medicine
- Social science & medicine
- 2012
There is a growing interest in understanding how the experience of socioeconomic status (SES) adversity across the life course may accumulate to negatively affect the functioning of biological… Expand
Affirmation of Personal Values Buffers Neuroendocrine and Psychological Stress Responses
- J. D. Creswell, W. Welch, S. Taylor, D. Sherman, T. Gruenewald, T. Mann
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 1 November 2005
Stress is implicated in the development and progression of a broad array of mental and physical health disorders. Theory and research on the self suggest that self-affirming activities may buffer… Expand
Socio‐economic differentials in peripheral biology: Cumulative allostatic load
- T. Seeman, E. Epel, T. Gruenewald, A. Karlamangla, B. McEwen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 1 February 2010
This chapter focuses on evidence linking socio‐economic status (SES) to “downstream” peripheral biology. Drawing on the concept of allostatic load, we examine evidence linking lower SES with greater… Expand
Combinations of biomarkers predictive of later life mortality
- T. Gruenewald, T. Seeman, C. Ryff, A. Karlamangla, B. Singer
- Medicine, Biology
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 19 September 2006
A wide range of biomarkers, reflecting activity in a number of biological systems (e.g., neuroendocrine, immune, cardiovascular, and metabolic), have been found to prospectively predict disability,… Expand
Allostatic Load and Frailty in Older Adults
- T. Gruenewald, T. Seeman, A. Karlamangla, C. Sarkisian
- Medicine
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- 1 September 2009
OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between allostatic load (AL), an index of multisystem physiological dysregulation, and frailty development over a 3‐year follow‐up in a sample of older adults.