Smoking only partly explains the higher lung cancer incidence observed among socially deprived people. Occupational exposures may account for part of these inequalities, but this issue has been little investigated. We investigated the extent to which smoking and occupational exposures to asbestos, silica...
One goal of the present study was to extend research on environmental variables in socially dominant and subordinate monkeys to include a resident/intruder confrontation paradigm, a widely used model of acute social stress in animal studies (Yap et al, 2015). In rats, acute social stress ...
The aim of our study is to outline more clearly the role of social network diversity in the aging process in Indonesia. Our primary research question centres on whether and to what degree there is an association of social network diversity with adult health in Indonesia. To answer this, the ...
Unfortunately for everyone whose vices come in different, ever so slightly more socially acceptable forms, the same can’t be said of drinking, smoking, staying up all night, and treating candy as the foundation of your personal food pyramid. Those vices will lead to dryness, wrinkles, inflamma...
Although both the human and animal literatures are notable for the general lack of attention paid to possible sex differences in drug self-administration behavior, evidence is accumulating to suggest that males and females may differ in factors that maintain tobacco smoking or nicotine self-administrati...
influence people’s perceptions of being socially isolated. The general pattern in this research is that increased social isolation is associated with decreased life satisfaction, higher levels of depression, and lower levels of psychological well-being (Cacioppo and Cacioppo,2014; Coutin and Knapp,...
Participants were excluded from the study if they were currently smoking, had a history of a heart attack within the last three months, had undergone chest/abdominal surgery within the previous three months, or had brain, ear, or eye surgery within the past month. None of the participants ...
It is possible that some of the negative subjective effects (eg, increased loneliness) were related to the socially isolated testing conditions, and these effects might not be evident in a social context (Doty and de Wit, 1995; Kirkpatrick and de Wit, 2013). Interestingly, in our study MDMA...
A growing body of studies have suggested that estradiol is another key gonadal hormone involved in individual differences in social behavior [25]. Like testosterone, estradiol has been linked to risk-taking [26], socially dominant behavior [25], and aggressive behavior [10]. Studies including ...
Presents a study that examined the long-term effects of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) by assessing substance use among undergraduates in a public university in Ohio. Background on DARE; Analysis of patterns of cigarette smoking and alcohol use; Investigation of patterns of drug use; Limit...