The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity

Del Giudice, Marco; Ellis, Bruce J.; Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.11.007

Cited by 1,373Stress Responses and CortisolEvolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorAnimal Behavior and Reproduction

The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity

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Del Giudice, Marco, Ellis, Bruce J., Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.·2011·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

DOI 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.11.007PMC PMC3068241

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This paper presents the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM), an evolutionary-developmental theory of individual differences in the functioning of the stress response system. The stress response system has three main biological functions: (1) to coordinate the organism's allostatic response to physical and psychosocial challenges; (2) to encode and filter information about the organism's social and physical environment, mediating the organism's openness to environmental inputs; and (3) to regulate the organism's physiology and behavior in a broad range of fitness-relevant areas including defensive behaviors, competitive risk-taking, learning, attachment, affiliation and reproductive functioning. The information encoded by the system during development feeds back on the long-term calibration of the system itself, resulting in adaptive patterns of responsivity and individual differences in behavior. Drawing on evolutionary life history theory, we build a model of the development of stress responsivity across life stages, describe four prototypical responsivity patterns, and discuss the emergence and meaning of sex differences. The ACM extends the theory of biological sensitivity to context (BSC) and provides an integrative framework for future research in the field.

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Background
The paper states that human males and females differ predictably in life history-related strategies and that men tend to invest more in mating and less in parenting than women.
“In most species, males tend to engage in higher mating effort and lower parental effort than females (Geary, 2002; Kokko and Jennions, 2008; Trivers, 1972).”
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The paper proposes the Adaptive Calibration Model as an evolutionary-developmental theory of individual differences in stress response functioning.
“This paper presents the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM), an evolutionary-developmental theory of individual differences in the functioning of the stress response system.”
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The paper argues that information encoded during development feeds back on long-term calibration of the stress response system, producing adaptive responsivity patterns and behavioral differences.
“The information encoded by the system during development feeds back on the long-term calibration of the system itself, resulting in adaptive patterns of responsivity and individual differences in behavior.”
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The paper argues that early-life SRS activation conveys information about the child's environment and tends to shift development toward faster or slower life history strategies depending on environmental safety.
“Frequent, intense SNS/HPA activation carries information about extrinsic morbidity-mortality and environmental unpredictability; consequently, it tends to shift LH strategies toward the fast end of the LH continuum. In contrast, a safe environment and the buffer provided by investing, secure caregivers result in infrequent and low-intensity activation of the SNS and HPA axis, and shift development toward slow strategies oriented to high somatic effort and parental investment.”
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In safe, protected, low-stress environments, a highly responsive stress response system is predicted to favor a sensitive phenotype and slow life history strategies.
“In safe, protected, low-stress environments, a highly responsive SRS enhances social learning and engagement with the external world, allowing the child to benefit more fully from social resources and opportunities, thus favoring development of a sensitive phenotype (pattern I).”
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The ACM extends the theory of biological sensitivity to context and is intended as an integrative framework for future research.
“The ACM extends the theory of biological sensitivity to context (BSC) and provides an integrative framework for future research in the field.”
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The model holds that children can respond in biologically adaptive ways even to harsh and unsupportive family environments.
“our model assumes that children have the evolved capacity to respond in biologically adaptive ways to harsh and unsupportive family environments, not only to loving and protective ones”
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The paper identifies juvenility as a critical transition period in the development of individual and sex differences in stress responsivity.
“Juvenility, however, has an important place in our model, and in sections 5 and 6 we argue that it represent a critical transition period in the development of individual and sex differences in responsivity.”
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In extremely dangerous environments, the model predicts a shift back toward low responsivity, especially in males pursuing fast, mating-oriented strategies.
“What happens in extremely dangerous environments characterized by severe or traumatic stress? We argue that the balance shifts again toward low responsivity, especially for males who adopt a fast, mating-oriented LH strategy characterized by antagonistic competition and extreme risk-taking.”
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In dangerous or unpredictable environments, the model predicts that increased stress responsivity should support vigilant phenotypes associated with fast life history strategies.
“The benefits of increased responsivity rise again when the environment is perceived as dangerous and/or unpredictable. A responsive SRS enhances the individual’s ability to react appropriately to dangers and threats while maintaining a high level of engagement with the social and physical environment.”
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The transition from childhood to juvenility is marked by adrenarche.
“The transition from childhood to juvenility is marked by the event of “adrenal puberty” or adrenarche (Auchus and Rainey, 2004; Ibáñez et al., 2000).”
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Social-evaluative threats and uncontrollable outcomes elicit strong HPA responses, especially when both are present.
“In general, social-evaluative threats and uncontrollable outcomes elicit strong HPA responses in laboratory tasks (Dickerson and Kemeny, 2004; Mason, 1968). The largest increases in cortisol are observed when both elements are present.”
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The authors state that the ACM explicitly links sensitivity to context with life history theory.
“we explicitly connect the concept of sensitivity to context to the broader evolutionary framework of LH theory.”
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The authors claim that high basal parasympathetic activity promotes calm, concentration, self-regulation, and positive emotionality.
“High basal activation of the PNS (especially the myelinated vagus) promotes calm, concentration, self-regulation and positive emotionality”
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The stress response system also regulates a wide range of life history-relevant traits, including growth, learning, aggression, attachment, and reproductive functioning.
“The SRS has a pervasive role in the regulation – and, most importantly, the integration – of physiology and behavior across the whole spectrum of human LH-relevant traits (Figure 1).”
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The paper says the stress response system is hierarchically organized, with the parasympathetic response occurring first, then the sympathetic response, and then the HPA axis.
“The SRS is organized in a hierarchical fashion, and its components differ in their response timing and in the physiological “depth” of their effects. The quickest and most immediate response is that of the parasympathetic system (PNS), followed by the sympathetic system (SNS) and by the HPA axis.”
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The stress response system consists of the sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
“The SRS comprises three anatomically distinct neuroendocrine circuits: the sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) branches of the autonomic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA).”
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A highly responsive stress response system makes an individual more informationally open and more sensitive to contextual influences.
“A highly responsive system makes an individual more informationally open and – as explained by the BSC theory – enhances his/her sensitivity to contextual influences, both “positive” and “negative”.”
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Life history theory concerns how organisms allocate limited resources among competing life functions across the life cycle.
“LH theory concerns optimal allocation of time and energy toward competing life functions – bodily maintenance, growth, and reproduction – over the life cycle.”
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The paper states that the second function of the SRS is to encode and filter environmental information and that responsivity acts as an amplifier or filter of that information.
“The second function of the SRS, closely connected to the first, is that of encoding and filtering information coming from the social and physical environment (section 4.2).”
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The ACM models four prototypical responsivity patterns by considering distinct roles for the parasympathetic system, sympathetic system, and HPA axis.
“Finally, we refine the BSC construct of stress responsivity by considering distinct roles for the three main components of the SRS (the parasympathetic and sympathetic systems and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis). This allows us to model four prototypical responsivity patterns, each reflecting the coordinated activity of the SRS components.”
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Developmental switches coordinate transitions between life stages and are especially important for developmental plasticity at stage transitions.
“Transitions between stages are coordinated by developmental switches that operate through hormonal mechanisms. Most critically, developmental plasticity is regulated through developmental switches and, thus, enhanced at life stage transitions.”
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The paper argues that the HPA axis is most strongly engaged by challenges that require extensive, sustained mobilization of resources.
“the HPA axis does not respond indiscriminately to each and every challenge faced by the organism; rather, it is engaged most intensely by those challenges requiring extensive, sustained mobilization of metabolic and psychological resources.”
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Authors: Del Giudice, M., Ellis, B. J., & Shirtcliff, E. A.
Affiliations: University of Arizona (US)
LSU New Orleans (US)
ORCID: Ellis, Bruce J.
Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.
Venue: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2011-06
Volume: 35
Issue: 7
Pages: 1562-1592
ISSN: 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.11.007
PMC: PMC3068241
OpenAlex: W2072546823
Cited by: 1,373
References: 505
Citations by year: 2026: 117 · 2025: 75 · 2024: 108 · 2023: 97 · 2022: 85 · 2021: 130 · 2020: 118 · 2019: 88 · 2018: 97 · 2017: 98 · 2016: 87 · 2015: 76 · 2014: 78 · 2013: 60 · 2012: 41
FWCI: 3.30
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
ArTS Archivio della ricerca di Trieste (University of Trieste https://www.units.it/) (submittedVersion)
Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH093675, K01MH077687)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Keywords: stress responsivity, stress system, individual differences, allostasis, sex differences, life stages
MeSH terms: Adaptation, Biological, Adaptation, Psychological, Biological Evolution, Humans, Human Development, Individuality, Models, Theoretical, Sex Characteristics, Stress, Psychological

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