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

Stress is a major cause of poor health and mortality in humans and other social mammals. Close social bonds buffer stress, however much of the underlying physiological mechanism remains unknown. Here, we test two key hypotheses: bond partner effects occur only during stress (social buffering) or gen...

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Published in:Nat Commun
Main Authors: Wittig, Roman M., Crockford, Catherine, Weltring, Anja, Langergraber, Kevin E., Deschner, Tobias, Zuberbühler, Klaus
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5097121/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27802260
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13361
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