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Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations
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dc.contributor.author | Wittig, Roman Martin | |
dc.contributor.author | Crockford, Catherine | |
dc.contributor.author | Weltring, Anja | |
dc.contributor.author | Langergraber, Kevin E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Deschner, Tobias | |
dc.contributor.author | Zuberbühler, Klaus | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-02T15:30:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-02T15:30:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-11-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wittig , R M , Crockford , C , Weltring , A , Langergraber , K E , Deschner , T & Zuberbühler , K 2016 , ' Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations ' , Nature Communications , vol. 7 , 13361 . https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13361 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 247320490 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 84149b39-2023-4991-90d2-e893d756c96e | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84994236473 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000386548300001 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-8378-088X/work/64360661 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/9751 | |
dc.description | We acknowledge Royal Zoological Society of Scotland for providing core funding to BCFS and Leakey Foundation (R.M.W., C.C., T.D., K.Z.), British Academy (C.C.), Leverhulme Trust (K.Z.) and Max Planck Society (R.M.W., C.C. and T.D.) for funding the research. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Stress is a major cause of poor health and mortality in humans and other social mammals. Close social bonds buffer stress, however much of the underlying physiological mechanism remains unknown. Here, we test two key hypotheses: bond partner effects occur only during stress (social buffering) or generally throughout daily life (main effects). We assess urinary glucocorticoids (uGC) in wild chimpanzees, with or without their bond partners, after a natural stressor, resting or everyday affiliation. Chimpanzees in the presence of, or interacting with, bond partners rather than others have lowered uGC levels across all three contexts. These results support the main effects hypothesis and indicate that hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis regulation is mediated by daily engagement with bond partners both within and out of stressful contexts. Regular social support with bond partners could lead to better health through daily ‘micro-management’ of the HPA axis, a finding with potential medical implications for humans. | |
dc.format.extent | 8 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Communications | en |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2016. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | BF Psychology | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BF | en |
dc.title | Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13361 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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