Individuals occupying dominant and subordinate positions in social hierarchies exhibit
divergent behaviours, physiology and neural functioning. Dominant animals express higher …

Social status has been associated with health consequences, although the mechanisms by
which status affects health are relatively unknown. At the physiological level, many studies …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Current assessments of adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs) may not adequately encompass the breadth of adversity to which low-income urban …

In humans and obligatory social animals, individuals with weak social ties experience
negative health and fitness consequences. The social buffering hypothesis conceptualizes …

In male vertebrates, two conflicting paradigms—the energetic costs of high dominance rank
and the chronic stress of low rank—have been proposed to explain patterns of immune …

In humans and other hierarchical species, social status is tightly linked to variation in health
and fitness-related traits. Experimental manipulations of social status in female rhesus …

Background: Socioeconomic status is a powerful predictor of mortality in living populations,
as status affects exposure or access to a variety of factors that impact health and survival …

Social status is an important predictor of parasite risk in vertebrates. To date, general
frameworks to explain status-related variation in parasitism have remained elusive. In this …

Objectives Intersectionality theory argues that various categories of identity and forms of
systemic oppression interact and produce inequalities in resource access, economic …

The littoral forest on sandy soil is among the most threatened habitats in Madagascar and,
as such, it represents a hot-spot within a conservation hot-spot. Assessing the health of the …