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The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity
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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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“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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“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 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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“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 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 (BSC) and provides an integrative framework for future research in the field.”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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Metadata
- Authors
- Del Giudice, M., Ellis, B. J., & Shirtcliff, E. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- LSU New Orleans (US)
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-06
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1562-1592
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3068241
- OpenAlex
- W2072546823
- Cited by
- 1,373
- References
- 505
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- FWCI
- 3.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- 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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