How can stress manifest itself in a social hierarchy

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Assignment: Physiological Characteristics of Sapolskys

YouTube Video: "Stress, Portrait of a Killer - Full Documentary (2008)".

Question A. Who is Robert Sapolsky and what brought him to the Savanna in east Africa? Why did Sapolsky decide to study baboons?

Question B. Why have hormones like adrenaline/epinephrine as well as glucocorticoids been essential to our survival as a species? What might make them unhealthy to us today?

Question C. How can stress manifest itself in a social hierarchy? What was one determining factor of a baboon's level of stress?

Question D. What were some physiological characteristics of Sapolsky's ‘have nots'?

Question E. Who is Sir Michael Marmot and what was the Whitehall study? What were some of their findings?

Question F. What made the Whitehall study an ideal environment to study the dynamic between hierarchies and health outcomes?

Question G. How did the results in the Whitehall and Sapolsky relate to each other?

Question H. In the past, how did medical professionals approach stress? How did their perspective on ulcers evolve?

Question I. Who is Carol A. Shively and what did her research on stress reveal about the cardiovascular health of primates?

Question J. What did Shively's research suggest about stress, social status, and life expectancy? How did feelings of pleasure and pain factor into her research?

Question K. Were there any physically visible markers of stress identified by Shively and the Whitehall study?

Question L. Who is Tessa Roseboom and what is meant by "the imprints of stress"?

Question M. Who are Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel and why is their research on telomeres relevant to the study of stress?

Question N. What traumatic event impacted the culture of the Keekorock baboon troop? How did the culture of the group change?

Question O. What were some coping strategies mentioned in the video? Did you find any of them particularly persuasive or interesting?

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