Hierarchy, Social
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Competition affects food choice in women.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine women's food choices after exposure to a threatening upward social comparison in an achievement situation. METHOD: Female university students performed three tasks in the presence of a confederate; for some, the situation was ... Read more...

The relationship between social status and atherosclerosis in male and female monkeys as revealed by meta-analysis.

30 Aug 2009 More than 25 years ago our laboratory reported sex-dependent relationships between social status and coronary artery atherosclerosis among cholesterol-fed cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) maintained in social groups of four to six animals ... Read more...

Social stress, visceral obesity, and coronary artery atherosclerosis: product of a primate adaptation.

30 Aug 2009 Abdominal obesity is prevalent and often accompanied by an array of metabolic perturbations including elevated blood pressure, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance or insulin resistance, a prothrombotic state, and a proinflammatory state, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hierarchy, Social'

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• Competition affects food choice in women. 30 Aug 2009
• The relationship between social status and atherosclerosis in male and female monkeys as revealed by meta-analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• Social stress, visceral obesity, and coronary artery atherosclerosis: product of a primate adaptation. 30 Aug 2009
• Low-status compensation: A theory for understanding the role of status in cultures of honor. 30 Aug 2009
• The role of shame in posttraumatic stress disorder: a proposal for a socio-emotional model for DSM-V. 16 Aug 2009
• Gender and health inequities: a comment on the Final Report of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. 5 Aug 2009
• Cooperatively breeding cottontop tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) do not donate rewards to their long-term mates. 30 Jul 2009
• Social dynamics of the golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana): female transfer and one-male unit succession. 30 Jul 2009
• Bee pheromones: signal or agent of manipulation? 26 Jul 2009
• Playing favorites: the influence of leaders' inner circle on group processes and performance. 4 Jul 2009
• Gender, family, and community correlates of mental health in South Asian Americans. 29 Jun 2009
• Patterns and profiles of response to incivility in the workplace. 29 Jun 2009
• [Federal occupational court establishes employer responsibilities: mobbing at the work site] 29 Jun 2009
• Are cultural characteristics associated with the relationship between self and others' ratings of leadership? 29 Jun 2009
• Clarifying the role of social comparison in the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE): an integrative study. 29 Jun 2009
• DNA methylation is widespread and associated with differential gene expression in castes of the honeybee, Apis mellifera. 23 Jun 2009
• Comparison of queen-specific gene expression in related lower termite species. 16 Jun 2009
• Does age matter? Effects of cognitive rehabilitation across the age span. 10 Jun 2009
• Dopamine receptor activation by honey bee queen pheromone. 9 Jun 2009
• Neural basis of preference for human social hierarchy versus egalitarianism. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Hierarchy, Social'

Definition: Social rank-order established by certain behavioral patterns.

Descriptor UI: D006608

Alternative terms: Hierarchy, Social; Hierarchies, Social; Social Hierarchies; Social Hierarchy;

Tree Number: I01.880.298;

Online Note: search SOCIAL DOMINANCE 1968-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under SOCIAL DOMINANCE 1969-90; was see under DOMINANCE, SOCIAL 1968

Technical Notes: human & animal; no qualif