Doctoral Dissertation Research: Personality, Stress Response, and Social Complexity in Primates

博士论文研究：灵长类动物的性格、压力反应和社会复杂性

• 批准号: 1732279
• 负责人: Ryne Palombit
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1732279&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Personality; Stress

Personality differences appear to have many influences on the social lives and relationships of humans. Given that an individual's relationships develop from social interactions with others, and that interactions can be stressful, an important question is how personality differences in the stress response influence social relationships. This doctoral dissertation project will investigate variation in stress response in a non-human primate model, with collection of behavioral and (non-invasive) hormonal data. Understanding how variation in coping with social stress affects the social lives of primates is important in light of growing evidence that the management of both stress and social relationships influences the mental and physical health of individuals (human and non-human). This project will provide laboratory research opportunities to Rutgers undergraduate students, particularly those from groups that are underrepresented in STEM fields. Science outreach and training in conservation, ecology, and wildlife management will be provided to local communities. The results of this project will be presented at institutions of higher learning with the goal of explaining the contributions of this research and of biological anthropology to society at large. This research will investigate how wild social primates, with naturally formed long-term relationships, individually differ in how they cope with stress. The olive baboon, more behaviorally and socially complex than most non-primate models, will provide comparative data for studying stress response variation in humans. The investigator will collect behavioral and hormonal data and use network analysis to study aggression, grooming, and spatial proximity, and observe how individual baboons react to various stressful situations. The results of this work will contribute knowledge about the maintenance of social relationships, the consequences of different types of stress coping, and how these variables interact with one another. These outcomes are important for understanding how certain individuals balance the problem of coping with stress with aspects of their social lives.

人格差异似乎对人类的社会生活和关系有很多影响。鉴于个人的关系是从与他人的社交互动中发展起来的，而且这种互动可能会带来压力，一个重要的问题是压力反应中的个性差异如何影响社会关系。该博士论文项目将研究非人类灵长类动物模型中压力反应的变化，并收集行为和（非侵入性）激素数据。鉴于越来越多的证据表明，压力和社会关系的管理会影响个体（人类和非人类）的身心健康，了解应对社会压力的变化如何影响灵长类动物的社会生活非常重要。该项目将为罗格斯大学的本科生提供实验室研究机会，特别是那些来自 STEM 领域代表性不足的群体的学生。 将向当地社区提供保护、生态和野生动物管理方面的科学宣传和培训。该项目的结果将在高等教育机构展示，目的是解释这项研究和生物人类学对整个社会的贡献。这项研究将调查自然形成长期关系的野生社会灵长类动物在应对压力的方式上有何不同。橄榄狒狒的行为和社交能力比大多数非灵长类动物模型更加复杂，将为研究人类压力反应变化提供比较数据。 调查人员将收集行为和荷尔蒙数据，并使用网络分析来研究攻击性、梳理行为和空间接近性，并观察狒狒个体对各种压力情况的反应。 这项工作的结果将有助于了解社会关系的维持、不同类型的压力应对的后果以及这些变量如何相互作用。这些结果对于理解某些人如何平衡应对压力问题与社交生活的各个方面非常重要。