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Social Psychoneuroimmunology Laboratory
Who gains or loses status and why? How do these changes or perceived changes in status impact stress and health? The 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Social Psychoneuroimmunology* Lab (SPNIL) broadly focuses on behavior, stress, and health outcomes within social hierarchies. Using an approach that combines social endocrine and psychoneuroimmunology methodology, we also examine biological determinants of status-seeking social behavior with a particular emphasis on causal mechanisms linking biology to behavior. Ultimately, SPNIL research aims to uncover psychosocial and biological determinants of resilience to social disparities in stress and health.
*The 鈥渆ndocrine鈥 is silent: Historically, the field of psychoneuroimmunology has maintained a strong focus on hormones. In fact, the 鈥渘euro鈥 fragment in psychoneuroimmunology represents the word 鈥渘euroendocrine.鈥 Alas, 鈥減sychoneuroendoimmunology鈥 is a bit of a mouthful.