Seamus A Decker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seamus A Decker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seamus A |
| FAMILY NAME | Decker |
| SIGNATURE | DECKER S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Stress as adaptation? A test of the adaptive boost hypothesis among Batswana men
Hormones in the Wild: Monitoring the Endocrinology of Family Relationships
SYNOPSIS For the past 23 years we have conducted a field study of child stress and family environment in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. Our primary objectives were to document hormonal responses of children to everyday interactions with their parents and other care providers, concomitant with longitudinal assessment of developmental and health outcomes. Here we provide a brief summary of our research design and highlight a few results from this collaborat…
Parenting Styles and Gender-Linked Drinking Behaviors in Dominica: Parenting and Drinking in Dominica
We explored links among adult alcohol consumption, personality, and retrospective childhood relationships with parents using psychometric instruments adapted for use among Dominicans (n=58; 25 men and 33 women). Compared to women, men consumed more alcohol and cigarettes, reported lower behavioral inhibition, and lower maternal “caringness” (all p<.05). Results suggest that, with respect to drinking, parenting styles predispose opposite developme…
Low Salivary Cortisol and Elevated Depressive Affect among Rural Men in Botswana: Reliability and Validity of Laboratory Results
Most research on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function under aversive conditions has focused on relatively increased acute episodic, or chronic secretions as an operationalization of "stress." Severe or recurrent stress, perhaps in interaction with individual characteristics, results in chronically decreased HPA function among some persons suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Little evidence exists to assess the population distrib…
Male-female differences in effects of parental absence on glucocorticoid stress response
Evolution and Culture Turf Wars: History, Mind, and/or Ecology? Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity . William H. Durham The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Cul…
Male-female differences in effects of parental absence on glucocorticoid stress response
Parenting Styles and Gender-Linked Drinking Behaviors in Dominica: Parenting and Drinking in Dominica
We explored links among adult alcohol consumption, personality, and retrospective childhood relationships with parents using psychometric instruments adapted for use among Dominicans (n=58; 25 men and 33 women). Compared to women, men consumed more alcohol and cigarettes, reported lower behavioral inhibition, and lower maternal “caringness” (all p<.05). Results suggest that, with respect to drinking, parenting styles predispose opposite developme…
Hormones in the Wild: Monitoring the Endocrinology of Family Relationships
SYNOPSIS For the past 23 years we have conducted a field study of child stress and family environment in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. Our primary objectives were to document hormonal responses of children to everyday interactions with their parents and other care providers, concomitant with longitudinal assessment of developmental and health outcomes. Here we provide a brief summary of our research design and highlight a few results from this collaborat…
Evolution and Culture Turf Wars: History, Mind, and/or Ecology? Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity . William H. Durham The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Cul…
Evolution and Culture Turf Wars: History, Mind, and/or Ecology? Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity . William H. Durham The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Cul…
Male-female differences in effects of parental absence on glucocorticoid stress response
Low Salivary Cortisol and Elevated Depressive Affect among Rural Men in Botswana: Reliability and Validity of Laboratory Results
Most research on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function under aversive conditions has focused on relatively increased acute episodic, or chronic secretions as an operationalization of "stress." Severe or recurrent stress, perhaps in interaction with individual characteristics, results in chronically decreased HPA function among some persons suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Little evidence exists to assess the population distrib…
Parenting Styles and Gender-Linked Drinking Behaviors in Dominica: Parenting and Drinking in Dominica
We explored links among adult alcohol consumption, personality, and retrospective childhood relationships with parents using psychometric instruments adapted for use among Dominicans (n=58; 25 men and 33 women). Compared to women, men consumed more alcohol and cigarettes, reported lower behavioral inhibition, and lower maternal “caringness” (all p<.05). Results suggest that, with respect to drinking, parenting styles predispose opposite developme…
Hormones in the Wild: Monitoring the Endocrinology of Family Relationships
SYNOPSIS For the past 23 years we have conducted a field study of child stress and family environment in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. Our primary objectives were to document hormonal responses of children to everyday interactions with their parents and other care providers, concomitant with longitudinal assessment of developmental and health outcomes. Here we provide a brief summary of our research design and highlight a few results from this collaborat…
Stress as adaptation? A test of the adaptive boost hypothesis among Batswana men
Psychology (4 works) · Stress Responses and Cortisol (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Depressive symptoms (2 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 works)