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Social Safety Theory: A Biologically Based Evolutionary Perspective on Life Stress, Health, and Behavior by Slavich, George M

“…Social Safety Theory hypothesizes that developing and maintaining friendly social bonds is a fundamental organizing principle of human behavior and that…”
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Stress, sex hormones, inflammation, and major depressive disorder: Extending Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression to account for sex differences in mood disorders by Slavich, George M., Sacher, Julia

“…Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression is a biologically plausible, multi-level theory that describes neural, physiologic, molecular, and genomic…”
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From stress to inflammation and major depressive disorder: a social signal transduction theory of depression by Slavich, George M, Irwin, Michael R

“…Major life stressors, especially those involving interpersonal stress and social rejection, are among the strongest proximal risk factors for depression. In…”
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Mindfulness meditation and the immune system: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials by Black, David S., Slavich, George M.

“…Mindfulness meditation represents a mental training framework for cultivating the state of mindful awareness in daily life. Recently, there has been a surge of…”
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Social Safety Theory: Understanding social stress, disease risk, resilience, and behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond by Slavich, George M.

“…Many of life's most impactful experiences involve either social safety (e.g., acceptance, affiliation, belonging, inclusion) or social threat (e.g., conflict,…”
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Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research by Allen, Kelly-Ann, Kern, Margaret L., Rozek, Christopher S., McInerney, Dennis M., Slavich, George M.

“…Objective: A sense of belonging - the subjective feeling of deep connection with social groups, physical places, and individual and collective experiences - is…”
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Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span by Furman, David, Campisi, Judith, Verdin, Eric, Carrera-Bastos, Pedro, Targ, Sasha, Franceschi, Claudio, Ferrucci, Luigi, Gilroy, Derek W, Fasano, Alessio, Miller, Gary W, Miller, Andrew H, Mantovani, Alberto, Weyand, Cornelia M, Barzilai, Nir, Goronzy, Jorg J, Rando, Thomas A, Effros, Rita B, Lucia, Alejandro, Kleinstreuer, Nicole, Slavich, George M

“…Although intermittent increases in inflammation are critical for survival during physical injury and infection, recent research has revealed that certain…”
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Lifetime stress exposure and health: A review of contemporary assessment methods and biological mechanisms by Shields, Grant S., Slavich, George M.

“…Life stress is a central construct in health research because it is associated with increased risk for a variety of serious mental and physical health…”
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The Emerging Field of Human Social Genomics by Slavich, George M., Cole, Steven W.

“…Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that…”
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Social belonging, compassion, and kindness: Key ingredients for fostering resilience, recovery, and growth from the COVID-19 pandemic by Slavich, George M., Roos, Lydia G., Zaki, Jamil

“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to increases in anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, burnout, grief, and suicide,…”
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Lifetime and perceived stress, social support, loneliness, and health in autistic adults by Moseley, Rachel L, Turner-Cobb, Julie M, Spahr, Chandler M, Shields, Grant S, Slavich, George M

“…Although the health consequences of life stress exposure in the general population are well known, how different stressors occurring over the lifetime cause…”
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Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stress by Slavich, George M, Way, Baldwin M, Eisenberger, Naomi I, Taylor, Shelley E

“…Although stress-induced increases in inflammation have been implicated in several major disorders, including cardiovascular disease and depression, the…”
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Social Safety Theory: Conceptual foundation, underlying mechanisms, and future directions by Slavich, George M., Roos, Lydia G., Mengelkoch, Summer, Webb, Christian A., Shattuck, Eric C., Moriarity, Daniel P., Alley, Jenna C.

“…Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in…”
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Black sheep get the blues: A psychobiological model of social rejection and depression by Slavich, George M., O’Donovan, Aoife, Epel, Elissa S., Kemeny, Margaret E.

“…Major life events involving social rejection are strongly associated with onset of depression. To account for this relation, we propose a psychobiological…”
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The Psychobiology of Bereavement and Health: A Conceptual Review From the Perspective of Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression by Seiler, Annina, von Känel, Roland, Slavich, George M.

“…Losing a spouse is considered one of the most stressful life events a person can experience. Particularly in the immediate weeks and months after the loss,…”
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Blunted Social Reward Responsiveness Moderates the Effect of Lifetime Social Stress Exposure on Depressive Symptoms by Pegg, Samantha, Ethridge, Paige, Shields, Grant S., Slavich, George M., Weinberg, Anna, Kujawa, Autumn

“…Exposure to social stress is a well-established risk factor for the development and recurrence of depression. Reduced neural responsiveness to monetary reward…”
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Stress-related cellular pathophysiology as a crosstalk risk factor for neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders by Palamarchuk, Iryna S., Slavich, George M., Vaillancourt, Tracy, Rajji, Tarek K.

“…In this narrative review, we examine biological processes linking psychological stress and cognition, with a focus on how psychological stress can activate…”
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Human social genomics: Concepts, mechanisms, and implications for health by Slavich, George M., Mengelkoch, Summer, Cole, Steven W.

“…The exciting field of human social genomics provides an evolutionarily informed, multilevel framework for understanding how positive and negative…”
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Cumulative lifetime stressor exposure impairs stimulus–response but not contextual learning by Rosero-Pahi, Mario, Andoh, Jamila, Shields, Grant S., Acosta-Ortiz, Alida, Serrano-Gomez, Sergio, Slavich, George M.

“…Greater exposure to stressors over the life course is believed to promote striatum-dependent over hippocampus-dependent learning and memory processes under…”
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The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN) in German: An overview and initial validation by Sturmbauer, Sarah C., Shields, Grant S., Hetzel, Eva-Luca, Rohleder, Nicolas, Slavich, George M.

“…Life stress is a key determinant of poor mental and physical health, but until recently no instrument existed for efficiently assessing cumulative stress…”
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