In Samoa, the presence of a matai title in the family has historically been a valued source of
social status. However, as the process of Westernization continues, new sources of social …

Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people are increasingly visible in US communities
and in national media. With this increased visibility, access to gender affirming healthcare is …

Cultural dimensions of health and behavior have been difficult to study because of limited
theoretical and methodological models linking the cultural, the individual, and the biological …

Disgust is hypothesized to be an evolved emotion that functions to regulate the avoidance of
pathogen-related stimuli and behaviors. Individuals with higher pathogen disgust sensitivity …

Multiple stressors affect developing and adult organisms, thereby partly structuring their
phenotypes. Determining how stressors influence health, well‐being, and longevity in …

Objective: Chronic psychosocial stress has been associated cross-sectionally with
ambulatory blood pressure and with salivary cortisol, but there have been few longitudinal …

Advances in biocultural research have been hampered by the lack of an explicit theory of
culture. Culture can be viewed as a collection of cultural models of specific domains with …

This publication, Lifestyle diseases in Pacific communities, is an up-date of the 1984 SPC
publication, The effect of urbanisation and western diet on the health of Pacific island …

The relationship between modernization and blood pressure has been formally examined in
anthropology for some 3 decades. A prominent hypothesis to account for the increase in …

Human indigenous circumpolar populations have elevated basal metabolic rates (BMRs)
relative to predicted values; this metabolic elevation has been postulated to be a …