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Psychobiological Responses to Social Self Threat: Functional or Detrimental?

Dickerson, Sally S., Gruenewald, Tara L., Kemeny, Margaret E.·2009·Self and Identity
DOI 10.1080/15298860802505186
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Abstract

A growing body of research suggests that threats to the social self, or threats to one's social esteem, acceptance, or status, can elicit a coordinated response, including increases in self-conscious emotion, cortisol, and proinflammatory cytokine activity. These psychobiological changes may have important benefits under certain acute contexts, including providing a signaling function for detecting social threat, initiating biological processes to adequately respond to the threat, and supporting behavioral patterns of submission or disengagement, which may be adaptive in this context. However, prolonged or chronic experiences of social self threat could have damaging mental and physical health consequences; situational and individual characteristics may render some more vulnerable to these negative effects.

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Authors
Dickerson, S. S., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Dickerson, Sally S.
ORCID
Venue
Self and Identity
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2009-04
Volume
8
Issue
2-3
Pages
270-285
ISSN
  • 1529-8868 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-8876
DOI
10.1080/15298860802505186
OpenAlex
W2013916061
Cited by
136
References
81
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 9 · 2012: 4
FWCI
5.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Self and Identity (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
Keywords
social self-esteem, social acceptance, social status, self-conscious emotions, cortisol, inflammatory cytokines, submission behavior, disengagement, health effects

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