C D Lynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 55618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C D Lynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | C D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynn |
| SIGNATURE | LYNN C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7031-5281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Introduction: The Influences of Religion and Spirituality on Human Biology
The objective of this special issue is to highlight the absence of religion and spirituality in the human biological enterprise. We have assembled a set of articles covering physiology, psychology, cognition, and neurophenomenology. The influences on human biology are diverse, yet many have been historically overlooked, which we hope this special issue takes a large step in remedying. Here, we outline how this issue came together and introduce re…
Using Latent Class Analysis to Characterize Sickness Signaling in Relation to Familism and Public and Private Religiosity in a Stratified US Sample
BACKGROUND: In response to contracting an infection, individuals usually display a suite of external signs (including sickness behavior) as an outward indication of illness. This context-dependent phenomenon seems to weigh the benefits and costs of eliciting sympathy by indicating sickness versus hiding signs of illness to avoid exposing others to potential infection. In a dynamically social species like humans, non-kin may be as likely to respon…
Why religion and spirituality are important in human biological research
The study of human biology includes exploration of all the genetic and environmental influences on human variation and life history, including impacts of sociocultural and physical environments. Religious practice and spirituality may be one of these influences. There are more than 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children, accounting for 84% of the world's 6.9 billion people. Furthermore, 70% of Americans consider themselves spiritu…
The value of publicly engaged podcasting in human biology
Podcasting about science may be popular, but does it motivate engagement? The Human Biology Association and American Journal of Human Biology ( AJHB ) cosponsor a podcast that highlights recent articles. We hypothesized that AJHB articles discussed on the podcast ( n = 42) receive more online views than other articles from the same issues. We used Student's t ‐tests to compare mean article views and found podcasted articles received more views, b…
Deviance as an historical artefact: A scoping review of psychological studies of body modification
Body modification is a blanket term for tattooing, piercing, scarring, cutting, and other forms of bodily alteration generally associated with fashion, identity, or cultural markings. Body modifications like tattooing and piercing have become so common in industrialised regions of the world that what were once viewed as marks of abnormality are now considered normal. However, the psychological motivations for body modification practices are still…
Hackademics: Hacks toward success in academia
OBJECTIVE: The Sausage of Science is a podcast for the Human Biology Association and the American Journal of Human Biology through which we introduced a special series called #Hackademics. The podcast was initially used to highlight the scholarship and humanity of fellow human biologists through interviews about "how the sausage is made" in research-that is, the nuts and bolts that go into our publications. However, we soon realized there is much…
Impacts of family and fieldwork on career/family balance among tenure‐track and tenured anthropologists
OBJECTIVES: A common dilemma rarely mentioned during doctoral training is career/family balance-especially the timing of children. This dilemma extends to professional anthropologists and includes questions surrounding the benefits and challenges of taking children to the field. We analyzed survey data from tenure-track and tenured anthropologists to determine if fieldwork in general and fieldwork with or without their children on site impacts ca…
Human biology is a matter of life or death: Effective science communication for Covid ‐19 research
In times of upheaval, clear information dissemination is more important than ever. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen ad hoc messaging lead to public and policy reactions with largely negative consequences (Everett, Colombatto, Chituc, Brady, & Crockett, 2020; Funk, 2017; Garrett, 2020). The late George Armelagos and colleagues repeatedly highlighted the resurgence of infectious disease mortality, many consider to be the third epide…
The evolutionary adaptation of body art: Tattooing as costly honest signaling of enhanced immune response in American Samoa
The historical and cultural popularity of tattooing may be partly due to honest information tattoos convey about adaptive biology, similar to physical benefits of exercise
Special Forum Visual Art Appendix
Appendix of art works curated by Christopher Lynn and Fidalis Buehler for the JTAS Special Forum Archipelagoes/Oceans/ American Visuality, edited by Hester Blum, Mary Eyring, Iping Liang, and Brian Russell Roberts. Appendix design by Christopher Lynn
Zika virus in American Samoa: Challenges to prevention in the context of health disparities and non-communicable disease
These findings reinforce the need for a multi-pronged approach to ZIKV. This study highlights the need for information on culturally specific barriers and recognition of additional challenges associated with dual burden in marginal populations where social inequalities exacerbate health issues
Tattooing to “Toughen up”: Tattoo experience and secretory immunoglobulin A
OBJECTIVES: A costly signaling model suggests tattooing inoculates the immune system to heightened vigilance against stressors associated with soft tissue damage. We sought to investigate this "inoculation hypothesis" of tattooing as a costly honest signal of fitness. We hypothesized that the immune system habituates to the tattooing stressor in repeatedly tattooed individuals and that immune response to the stress of the tattooing process would …
Replacing the Lone Stranger with Evidence-Based Theory
Anthropology is elemental: Anthropological perspective through multilevel teaching
Modern academia is a concomitant venture involving research, teaching, and service. This article outlines a reimagined service-learning project that provides research and teaching experience to undergraduate and graduate anthropology students. We teach graduate students to teach undergraduates to teach anthropology to elementary school children. We outline benefits of teaching anthropology to children who are considerably younger than the traditi…
Thinking outside anthropology's box: Socializing undergraduates through collaborative research, teaching, and service
Most undergraduate anthropology majors will not pursue postgraduate careers in the discipline, so the greatest value of anthropological training is in providing a holistic sense of cultural relativity and appreciation for human diversity. However, translating anthropology's value to other career paths is frequently hindered by students' limited exposure to theory and methods and further complicated by the discipline's emphasis on individualistic …
Religious-Commitment Signaling and Impression Management amongst Pentecostals: Relationships to Salivary Cortisol and Alpha-Amylase
Religious-commitment signaling is thought to indicate willingness to cooperate with a religious group. It follows that a desire to signal affiliation and reap concomitant benefits would lend itself to acting in socially desirable ways. Success or failure in such areas, especially where there is conscious intent, should correspond to proximal indicators of well-being, such as psychosocial or biological stress. To test this model, we assessed relig…
The Wrong Holy Ghost: Discerning the Apostolic Gift of Discernment Using a Signaling and Systems Theoretical Approach
I develop a case study of demonic glossolalia (speaking in tongues) for its cues in conveying religious commitment among a congregation of Apostolic Pentecostals. From the perspective of signaling theory, costly or hard-to-fake signals may convey psychological dispositions of members and would-be members toward an inclusive community. I utilize signaling theory in a broader systems approach to make sense of an incident of speaking in tongues that…
Glossolalia is associated with differences in biomarkers of stress and arousal among Apostolic Pentecostals
The influence of glossolalia or “speaking in tongues” on biological stress and arousal is examined in a sample of Apostolic Pentecostals. Glossolalia is a form of dissociation considered by Pentecostals as possession by the Holy Spirit. Dissociation is a psychological term for partitioning of awareness and widely held to moderate stress, yet this has been difficult to affirm in culturally embedded situations. We sought to determine if glossolalic…
Salivary alpha‐amylase and cortisol among pentecostals on a worship and nonworship day
OBJECTIVES: This investigation used a biomarker of sympathetic nervous system activity novel to biocultural research to test the hypothesis that engaging in religious worship activities would reduce baseline stress levels on a non-worship day among Pentecostals. METHODS: As detailed in Lynn et al. (submitted for publication), stress was measured via salivary cortisol and α-amylase among 52 Apostolic Pentecostals in New York's mid-Hudson Valley. S…
Parent Seeking PhD: The Practicality and Pitfalls of Staying Local
Adaptive and Maladaptive Dissociation: An Epidemiological and Anthropological Comparison and Proposition for an Expanded Dissociation Model
Dissociation is the psychological aspect of stress response. It is an adaptive reaction to a stressor on a short-term basis but can be maladaptive if under- or overutilized and comprises the partitioning of consciousness, ranging from barely to rigidly partitioned. Current means of measuring dissociation focus primarily on DSM-IV-TR Dissociative Disorders and do not sufficiently account for adaptive sub-clinical forms or maladaptive under-dissoci…
Thinking outside anthropology's box: Socializing undergraduates through collaborative research, teaching, and service
Most undergraduate anthropology majors will not pursue postgraduate careers in the discipline, so the greatest value of anthropological training is in providing a holistic sense of cultural relativity and appreciation for human diversity. However, translating anthropology's value to other career paths is frequently hindered by students' limited exposure to theory and methods and further complicated by the discipline's emphasis on individualistic …
Adaptive and Maladaptive Dissociation: An Epidemiological and Anthropological Comparison and Proposition for an Expanded Dissociation Model
Dissociation is the psychological aspect of stress response. It is an adaptive reaction to a stressor on a short-term basis but can be maladaptive if under- or overutilized and comprises the partitioning of consciousness, ranging from barely to rigidly partitioned. Current means of measuring dissociation focus primarily on DSM-IV-TR Dissociative Disorders and do not sufficiently account for adaptive sub-clinical forms or maladaptive under-dissoci…
Anthropology is elemental: Anthropological perspective through multilevel teaching
Modern academia is a concomitant venture involving research, teaching, and service. This article outlines a reimagined service-learning project that provides research and teaching experience to undergraduate and graduate anthropology students. We teach graduate students to teach undergraduates to teach anthropology to elementary school children. We outline benefits of teaching anthropology to children who are considerably younger than the traditi…
The Wrong Holy Ghost: Discerning the Apostolic Gift of Discernment Using a Signaling and Systems Theoretical Approach
I develop a case study of demonic glossolalia (speaking in tongues) for its cues in conveying religious commitment among a congregation of Apostolic Pentecostals. From the perspective of signaling theory, costly or hard-to-fake signals may convey psychological dispositions of members and would-be members toward an inclusive community. I utilize signaling theory in a broader systems approach to make sense of an incident of speaking in tongues that…
Religious-Commitment Signaling and Impression Management amongst Pentecostals: Relationships to Salivary Cortisol and Alpha-Amylase
Religious-commitment signaling is thought to indicate willingness to cooperate with a religious group. It follows that a desire to signal affiliation and reap concomitant benefits would lend itself to acting in socially desirable ways. Success or failure in such areas, especially where there is conscious intent, should correspond to proximal indicators of well-being, such as psychosocial or biological stress. To test this model, we assessed relig…
Adaptive and Maladaptive Dissociation: An Epidemiological and Anthropological Comparison and Proposition for an Expanded Dissociation Model
Dissociation is the psychological aspect of stress response. It is an adaptive reaction to a stressor on a short-term basis but can be maladaptive if under- or overutilized and comprises the partitioning of consciousness, ranging from barely to rigidly partitioned. Current means of measuring dissociation focus primarily on DSM-IV-TR Dissociative Disorders and do not sufficiently account for adaptive sub-clinical forms or maladaptive under-dissoci…
Parent Seeking PhD: The Practicality and Pitfalls of Staying Local
Salivary alpha‐amylase and cortisol among pentecostals on a worship and nonworship day
OBJECTIVES: This investigation used a biomarker of sympathetic nervous system activity novel to biocultural research to test the hypothesis that engaging in religious worship activities would reduce baseline stress levels on a non-worship day among Pentecostals. METHODS: As detailed in Lynn et al. (submitted for publication), stress was measured via salivary cortisol and α-amylase among 52 Apostolic Pentecostals in New York's mid-Hudson Valley. S…
Glossolalia is associated with differences in biomarkers of stress and arousal among Apostolic Pentecostals
The influence of glossolalia or “speaking in tongues” on biological stress and arousal is examined in a sample of Apostolic Pentecostals. Glossolalia is a form of dissociation considered by Pentecostals as possession by the Holy Spirit. Dissociation is a psychological term for partitioning of awareness and widely held to moderate stress, yet this has been difficult to affirm in culturally embedded situations. We sought to determine if glossolalic…
The Wrong Holy Ghost: Discerning the Apostolic Gift of Discernment Using a Signaling and Systems Theoretical Approach
I develop a case study of demonic glossolalia (speaking in tongues) for its cues in conveying religious commitment among a congregation of Apostolic Pentecostals. From the perspective of signaling theory, costly or hard-to-fake signals may convey psychological dispositions of members and would-be members toward an inclusive community. I utilize signaling theory in a broader systems approach to make sense of an incident of speaking in tongues that…
Religious-Commitment Signaling and Impression Management amongst Pentecostals: Relationships to Salivary Cortisol and Alpha-Amylase
Religious-commitment signaling is thought to indicate willingness to cooperate with a religious group. It follows that a desire to signal affiliation and reap concomitant benefits would lend itself to acting in socially desirable ways. Success or failure in such areas, especially where there is conscious intent, should correspond to proximal indicators of well-being, such as psychosocial or biological stress. To test this model, we assessed relig…
Tattooing to “Toughen up”: Tattoo experience and secretory immunoglobulin A
OBJECTIVES: A costly signaling model suggests tattooing inoculates the immune system to heightened vigilance against stressors associated with soft tissue damage. We sought to investigate this "inoculation hypothesis" of tattooing as a costly honest signal of fitness. We hypothesized that the immune system habituates to the tattooing stressor in repeatedly tattooed individuals and that immune response to the stress of the tattooing process would …
Replacing the Lone Stranger with Evidence-Based Theory
Anthropology is elemental: Anthropological perspective through multilevel teaching
Modern academia is a concomitant venture involving research, teaching, and service. This article outlines a reimagined service-learning project that provides research and teaching experience to undergraduate and graduate anthropology students. We teach graduate students to teach undergraduates to teach anthropology to elementary school children. We outline benefits of teaching anthropology to children who are considerably younger than the traditi…
Thinking outside anthropology's box: Socializing undergraduates through collaborative research, teaching, and service
Most undergraduate anthropology majors will not pursue postgraduate careers in the discipline, so the greatest value of anthropological training is in providing a holistic sense of cultural relativity and appreciation for human diversity. However, translating anthropology's value to other career paths is frequently hindered by students' limited exposure to theory and methods and further complicated by the discipline's emphasis on individualistic …
Zika virus in American Samoa: Challenges to prevention in the context of health disparities and non-communicable disease
These findings reinforce the need for a multi-pronged approach to ZIKV. This study highlights the need for information on culturally specific barriers and recognition of additional challenges associated with dual burden in marginal populations where social inequalities exacerbate health issues
The evolutionary adaptation of body art: Tattooing as costly honest signaling of enhanced immune response in American Samoa
The historical and cultural popularity of tattooing may be partly due to honest information tattoos convey about adaptive biology, similar to physical benefits of exercise
Special Forum Visual Art Appendix
Appendix of art works curated by Christopher Lynn and Fidalis Buehler for the JTAS Special Forum Archipelagoes/Oceans/ American Visuality, edited by Hester Blum, Mary Eyring, Iping Liang, and Brian Russell Roberts. Appendix design by Christopher Lynn
Human biology is a matter of life or death: Effective science communication for Covid ‐19 research
In times of upheaval, clear information dissemination is more important than ever. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen ad hoc messaging lead to public and policy reactions with largely negative consequences (Everett, Colombatto, Chituc, Brady, & Crockett, 2020; Funk, 2017; Garrett, 2020). The late George Armelagos and colleagues repeatedly highlighted the resurgence of infectious disease mortality, many consider to be the third epide…
Impacts of family and fieldwork on career/family balance among tenure‐track and tenured anthropologists
OBJECTIVES: A common dilemma rarely mentioned during doctoral training is career/family balance-especially the timing of children. This dilemma extends to professional anthropologists and includes questions surrounding the benefits and challenges of taking children to the field. We analyzed survey data from tenure-track and tenured anthropologists to determine if fieldwork in general and fieldwork with or without their children on site impacts ca…
Hackademics: Hacks toward success in academia
OBJECTIVE: The Sausage of Science is a podcast for the Human Biology Association and the American Journal of Human Biology through which we introduced a special series called #Hackademics. The podcast was initially used to highlight the scholarship and humanity of fellow human biologists through interviews about "how the sausage is made" in research-that is, the nuts and bolts that go into our publications. However, we soon realized there is much…
Deviance as an historical artefact: A scoping review of psychological studies of body modification
Body modification is a blanket term for tattooing, piercing, scarring, cutting, and other forms of bodily alteration generally associated with fashion, identity, or cultural markings. Body modifications like tattooing and piercing have become so common in industrialised regions of the world that what were once viewed as marks of abnormality are now considered normal. However, the psychological motivations for body modification practices are still…
Introduction: The Influences of Religion and Spirituality on Human Biology
The objective of this special issue is to highlight the absence of religion and spirituality in the human biological enterprise. We have assembled a set of articles covering physiology, psychology, cognition, and neurophenomenology. The influences on human biology are diverse, yet many have been historically overlooked, which we hope this special issue takes a large step in remedying. Here, we outline how this issue came together and introduce re…
Using Latent Class Analysis to Characterize Sickness Signaling in Relation to Familism and Public and Private Religiosity in a Stratified US Sample
BACKGROUND: In response to contracting an infection, individuals usually display a suite of external signs (including sickness behavior) as an outward indication of illness. This context-dependent phenomenon seems to weigh the benefits and costs of eliciting sympathy by indicating sickness versus hiding signs of illness to avoid exposing others to potential infection. In a dynamically social species like humans, non-kin may be as likely to respon…
Why religion and spirituality are important in human biological research
The study of human biology includes exploration of all the genetic and environmental influences on human variation and life history, including impacts of sociocultural and physical environments. Religious practice and spirituality may be one of these influences. There are more than 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children, accounting for 84% of the world's 6.9 billion people. Furthermore, 70% of Americans consider themselves spiritu…
The value of publicly engaged podcasting in human biology
Podcasting about science may be popular, but does it motivate engagement? The Human Biology Association and American Journal of Human Biology ( AJHB ) cosponsor a podcast that highlights recent articles. We hypothesized that AJHB articles discussed on the podcast ( n = 42) receive more online views than other articles from the same issues. We used Student's t ‐tests to compare mean article views and found podcasted articles received more views, b…
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