Cardiovascular Functioning, Gender, and the Social World
Animal models provide clear, uncluttered pictures of connections among social stress, physiology, and socioemotional behavior. Translating from animal models is one method of revealing basic biobehavioral stress circuits that may also contribute to organizing the human social world.
The article below, based on a lecture given at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, summarizes a body of research examining connections among basic elements of social power, gender, and cardiovascular physiology. This research was, in part inspired, in part, by animal models of social stress.
