Social buffering of stress in development: A career perspective

MR Gunnar - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This review provides a broad overview of my research group's work on social buffering in
human development in the context of the field. Much of the focus is on social buffering of the …

The social buffering of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical axis in humans: Developmental and experiential determinants

MR Gunnar, CE Hostinar - Social neuroscience, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Social buffering, a subset of social support, is the process through which the availability of a
conspecific reduces the activity of stress-mediating neurobiological systems. While its role in …

Psychobiological mechanisms underlying the social buffering of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical axis: A review of animal models and human studies across …

CE Hostinar, RM Sullivan, MR Gunnar - Psychological bulletin, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Discovering the stress-buffering effects of social relationships has been one of the major
findings in psychobiology in the last century. However, an understanding of the underlying …

Mechanisms and functional implications of social buffering in infants: Lessons from animal models

RM Sullivan, RE Perry - Social Neuroscience, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Social buffering, which is the attenuation of stress hormone release by a social partner,
occurs in many species throughout the lifespan. Social buffering of the infant by the …

[HTML][HTML] Psychobiological mechanisms underlying the social buffering of the HPA axis: A review of animal models and human studies across development

CE Hostinar, RM Sullivan, MR Gunnar - Psychological bulletin, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Discovering the stress-buffering effects of social relationships has been one of the major
findings in psychobiology in the last century. However, an understanding of the underlying …

Social buffering of the stress response: diversity, mechanisms, and functions

MB Hennessy, S Kaiser, N Sachser - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2009 - Elsevier
Protracted or repeated activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical (HPA) system
is associated with a variety of physical and psychological pathologies. Studies dating back …

Social buffering of stress responses in nonhuman primates: Maternal regulation of the development of emotional regulatory brain circuits

MM Sanchez, KM McCormack, BR Howell - Social neuroscience, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Social buffering, the phenomenon by which the presence of a familiar individual reduces or
even eliminates stress-and fear-induced responses, exists in different animal species and …

Future directions in the study of social relationships as regulators of the HPA axis across development

CE Hostinar, MR Gunnar - Future work in clinical child and …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Many promising findings support the notion that social relationships can dampen
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis stress responses and protect individuals …

Human attachment triggers different social buffering mechanisms under high and low early life stress rearing

K Yirmiya, S Motsan, O Zagoory-Sharon… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social buffering-the attenuation of stress by maternal safety signals-is a core mammalian-
general stress management mechanism implicating two ancient systems: the oxytocinergic …

Attachment and stress in early development: Does attachment add to the potency of social regulators of infant stress?

MR Gunnar - 2005 - direct.mit.edu
For the last forty some years, studies of stress and attachment have been mainstays of
primate psychoendocrine research. These studies have focused on the limbic–hypothalamic …