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The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity

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

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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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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)
OpenAlex
W2072546823
Cited by
1,373
References
505
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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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