Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations

The stress-reducing effects of social bonds have been hypothesized to accrue either during stressful events or across daily affiliations. Here, Wittiget al. show that the presence of social partners reduces levels of stress hormones in wild chimpanzees beyond stressful contexts, supporting the latte...

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Autores principales: Roman M. Wittig, Catherine Crockford, Anja Weltring, Kevin E. Langergraber, Tobias Deschner, Klaus Zuberbühler
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:008eade6cabd49259d991bf5af0598342021-12-02T17:31:20ZSocial support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations10.1038/ncomms133612041-1723https://doaj.org/article/008eade6cabd49259d991bf5af0598342016-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13361https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723The stress-reducing effects of social bonds have been hypothesized to accrue either during stressful events or across daily affiliations. Here, Wittiget al. show that the presence of social partners reduces levels of stress hormones in wild chimpanzees beyond stressful contexts, supporting the latter hypothesis.Roman M. WittigCatherine CrockfordAnja WeltringKevin E. LangergraberTobias DeschnerKlaus ZuberbühlerNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2016)
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Anja Weltring
Kevin E. Langergraber
Tobias Deschner
Klaus Zuberbühler
Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations
description The stress-reducing effects of social bonds have been hypothesized to accrue either during stressful events or across daily affiliations. Here, Wittiget al. show that the presence of social partners reduces levels of stress hormones in wild chimpanzees beyond stressful contexts, supporting the latter hypothesis.
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author Roman M. Wittig
Catherine Crockford
Anja Weltring
Kevin E. Langergraber
Tobias Deschner
Klaus Zuberbühler
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title Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations
title_short Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations
title_full Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations
title_fullStr Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations
title_full_unstemmed Social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations
title_sort social support reduces stress hormone levels in wild chimpanzees across stressful events and everyday affiliations
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