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Psychobiological Responses to Social Self Threat: Functional or Detrimental?
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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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Metadata
- 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.
- 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
- OpenAlex
- W2013916061
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 81
- Citations by year
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- 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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