Aniruddha Das
Biographic Data
| ID | 644144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aniruddha Das |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aniruddha |
| FAMILY NAME | Das |
| SIGNATURE | DAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1338-2971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Witch trials and wages in early-modern Europe
Status, despair, and epigenetic age acceleration
Biological age acceleration predicts multiple "diseases of aging." Objective and subjective social statuses have both been prospectively linked to this outcome. An established chain-of-risk framework suggests that "effects" of each may be mediated by one's subsequent structural position. A separate deaths-of-despair literature identifies a person's sense of futility as another potential link. Such chains remain underexplored. The current study us…
Subjective religiosity and perceived control in later life
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function
Childhood police encounters, social isolation and epigenetic age acceleration among older U.S. adults
Secularism, family ties and loneliness
Genes-in-Dyads
OBJECTIVES: Using dyadic genetic information on older couples, this study queried associations of a polygenic score for well-being with one's own as well as a partner's relationship experiences. METHOD: Data were from the 2010 wave of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. Analysis was through structural equation modeling. RESULTS: Especially among women, the genetic score was associated with individuals' own relationship experiences. Genetic exte…
Religious attendance and global cognitive function
The relational genomics of cognitive function
Social Integration, Self-Rated Health . . . and Genes
Objective: This study examined genetic roots of later life social integration, and their confounding of this social factor’s health linkages. Method: Data were from the 2010 wave of the Health and Retirement Study. Two dimensions of integration were examined: with one’s “stakeholder” network of family and friends and with the community. Genetic measures included polygenic scores for extraversion and educational attainment. Results: Ties to one’s …
Is Loneliness Adaptive? A Dynamic Panel Model Study of Older U.S. Adults
Loneliness seems to induce domain- and gender-specific sociality responses. Findings suggest implications for evolutionary models of sociality as well as for psychosocial and physical health. Pending replication in independent samples, inferences remain tentative
Major Discrimination Experiences, Education, and Genes
Objectives: Rather than acting as a buffer, educational attainment has a known positive linkage with major experiences of lifetime discrimination. Recently established genetic roots of education, then, may also influence such reports. The current study examined these patterns. Methods: Data were from the 2010 wave of the Health and Retirement Study. Polygenic scores indexed one's genetic propensity for more education. Mediation analysis was throu…
Chronic Ongoing Stressors and C-Reactive Protein
Objectives: Literature suggests C-reactive protein (CRP)-as a marker of low-grade systemic inflammation-may mediate the linkage between chronic stressors and cardiometabolic conditions. Previous population-based reports are based on weak methodologies and may have yielded incorrect inferences. The current study examined linkages of within-person CRP variation with corresponding variation in stressor burdens. Method: Data were from the 2006, 2010,…
Genes, Childhood Trauma, and Late Life Depressive Symptoms
Objectives: Findings on gene-environment correlations suggest childhood "environments" may reflect genetic liabilities. The independent psychosocial influence of childhood trauma is unclear. This study examined such effects on adulthood depressive symptoms. Methods: Data were from the Health and Retirement Study. Trauma items included childhood physical abuse and parental substance abuse. Multinomial logit models examined genetic effects on stabl…
Transpersonal Genetic Effects Among Older U.S. Couples
In addition to the subject-specific linkages emphasized in extant genetics literature, relational contexts involve multiple transpersonal genetic associations. These appear to have consequences for a partner's and one's own health. Life-course theory indicates that a person is never not embedded in such contexts, suggesting that these patterns may be widespread. Research is needed on their implications for the life-course and gene-environment cor…
Loneliness does (not) have cardiometabolic effects
Genes, depressive symptoms, and chronic stressors
Crossover” in Depressive Symptoms Among Older Couples
Objective: This study examined effects of a partner's depressive symptoms on those of a focal respondent. Method: Data were from the 2008-through-2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Linear growth modeling was used to distinguish within- from between-person variation, and genetic instrumental variables to take endogeneity into account. Results: A partner's 2008 depressive symptoms had no associations with within-person change in those o…
Inflammaging” and Estradiol among Older U.S. Women
Despite accumulating small-sample and clinical evidence on "inflammaging," no population-representative longitudinal studies have specifically examined women's late-life inflammation trends. While a range of studies indicates estradiol's immunomodulation role, evidence is contradictory on whether its effects are pro- or antiinflammatory among older women. Using longitudinal data from the first two waves of the National Social Life, Health and Agi…
Network Connections and Salivary Testosterone Among Older U.S. Women
Rather than being a static and exogenous biological factor, older women's testosterone levels seem partly an outcome of their social context. Implications for sexual health and hormone therapy are discussed. However, this androgen also influences dimensions of their intimate networks critical to successful aging. Findings suggest the need for social scientists to engage with the neuroendocrine literature, which offers suggestions on linkages of h…
Depression, Inflammation, and Physiological Risk in Late Life
This nationally representative study queried effects of community dwelling older adults' depression and inflammation at baseline on over-time changes in surrogate markers of their cardiometabolic risk. Data were from the 2005-2006 and 2010-2011 waves of the U.S. National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. Inflammation was indicated by C-reactive protein and depression by the CES-D scale. Cardiometabolic markers included hemoglobin A1c and sy…
Sexual Contact in Childhood, Revictimization, and Lifetime Sexual and Psychological Outcomes
Social Modulation or Hormonal Causation? Linkages of Testosterone with Sexual Activity and Relationship Quality in a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Sample of Older Adults
Psychosocial distress and inflammation
Religious Attendance and Physiological Problems in Late Life
Religious attendance may buffer older adults from physiological problems and the health effects of life events such as spousal loss. More intensive analysis is needed to explain differential linkages with specific biological subsystems
Sexuality
Data obtained in the NSHAP can be used to construct key measures of sexuality among older adults; to examine sexuality itself; and to explore the link between sexuality, health, well-being, and other dimensions of the lives of older adults
"How does race get "under the skin
Families, social life, and well-being at older ages
As people age, many aspects of their lives tend to change, including the constellation of people with whom they are connected, their social context, their families, and their health—changes that are often interrelated. Wave I of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) has yielded rich information on intimate ties, especially dyads and families, and on social connections generally. Combined with extensive biological and other h…
Psychosocial distress and inflammation
Spousal Loss and Health in Late Life
Older adults' spousal loss influences multiple dimensions of their health. Gender differences in biological linkages suggest women's greater physiological vulnerability to this weathering event. Effects of loss are long term rather than transient, especially with biological conditions
Masturbation in Urban China
Loneliness does (not) have cardiometabolic effects
Religious Attendance and Physiological Problems in Late Life
Religious attendance may buffer older adults from physiological problems and the health effects of life events such as spousal loss. More intensive analysis is needed to explain differential linkages with specific biological subsystems
Sexual Harassment at Work in the United States
Using nationally representative data from the 1992 U.S. National Health and Social Life Survey, this study queried the prevalence and risk factors of lifetime workplace sexual harassment among both women and men. Among those aged 18-60 reporting ever having worked, 41% of women (CI, 37-44) reported any workplace harassment over their lifetime, with men's harassment prevalence significantly lower, at 32% (CI, 29-35). In the youngest age groups (th…
Sexual Harassment of Women in Urban China
Using data from the Chinese Health and Family Life survey, this study analyzed the prevalence of and risk factors for sexual harassment in China in the year 2000. It was the first study to use a general population sample to examine all types of harassment in an Asian country. The dataset was a stratified probability sample with 3,821 participants, and was nationally representative (apart from Hong Kong and Tibet) of China's adult population aged …
Religious attendance and global cognitive function
Network Connections and Salivary Testosterone Among Older U.S. Women
Rather than being a static and exogenous biological factor, older women's testosterone levels seem partly an outcome of their social context. Implications for sexual health and hormone therapy are discussed. However, this androgen also influences dimensions of their intimate networks critical to successful aging. Findings suggest the need for social scientists to engage with the neuroendocrine literature, which offers suggestions on linkages of h…
Secularism, family ties and loneliness
The relational genomics of cognitive function
Chronic Ongoing Stressors and C-Reactive Protein
Objectives: Literature suggests C-reactive protein (CRP)-as a marker of low-grade systemic inflammation-may mediate the linkage between chronic stressors and cardiometabolic conditions. Previous population-based reports are based on weak methodologies and may have yielded incorrect inferences. The current study examined linkages of within-person CRP variation with corresponding variation in stressor burdens. Method: Data were from the 2006, 2010,…
Transpersonal Genetic Effects Among Older U.S. Couples
In addition to the subject-specific linkages emphasized in extant genetics literature, relational contexts involve multiple transpersonal genetic associations. These appear to have consequences for a partner's and one's own health. Life-course theory indicates that a person is never not embedded in such contexts, suggesting that these patterns may be widespread. Research is needed on their implications for the life-course and gene-environment cor…
Genes, depressive symptoms, and chronic stressors
Sexual Contact in Childhood, Revictimization, and Lifetime Sexual and Psychological Outcomes
Conservative Christianity, Partnership, Hormones, and Sex in Late Life
Sexual Harassment of Women in Urban China
Using data from the Chinese Health and Family Life survey, this study analyzed the prevalence of and risk factors for sexual harassment in China in the year 2000. It was the first study to use a general population sample to examine all types of harassment in an Asian country. The dataset was a stratified probability sample with 3,821 participants, and was nationally representative (apart from Hong Kong and Tibet) of China's adult population aged …
Sexuality
Data obtained in the NSHAP can be used to construct key measures of sexuality among older adults; to examine sexuality itself; and to explore the link between sexuality, health, well-being, and other dimensions of the lives of older adults
Masturbation in Urban China
Sexual Harassment at Work in the United States
Using nationally representative data from the 1992 U.S. National Health and Social Life Survey, this study queried the prevalence and risk factors of lifetime workplace sexual harassment among both women and men. Among those aged 18-60 reporting ever having worked, 41% of women (CI, 37-44) reported any workplace harassment over their lifetime, with men's harassment prevalence significantly lower, at 32% (CI, 29-35). In the youngest age groups (th…
Families, social life, and well-being at older ages
As people age, many aspects of their lives tend to change, including the constellation of people with whom they are connected, their social context, their families, and their health—changes that are often interrelated. Wave I of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) has yielded rich information on intimate ties, especially dyads and families, and on social connections generally. Combined with extensive biological and other h…
Spousal Loss and Health in Late Life
Older adults' spousal loss influences multiple dimensions of their health. Gender differences in biological linkages suggest women's greater physiological vulnerability to this weathering event. Effects of loss are long term rather than transient, especially with biological conditions
"How does race get "under the skin
Religious Attendance and Physiological Problems in Late Life
Religious attendance may buffer older adults from physiological problems and the health effects of life events such as spousal loss. More intensive analysis is needed to explain differential linkages with specific biological subsystems
Conservative Christianity, Partnership, Hormones, and Sex in Late Life
Sexual Contact in Childhood, Revictimization, and Lifetime Sexual and Psychological Outcomes
Social Modulation or Hormonal Causation? Linkages of Testosterone with Sexual Activity and Relationship Quality in a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Sample of Older Adults
Psychosocial distress and inflammation
Inflammaging” and Estradiol among Older U.S. Women
Despite accumulating small-sample and clinical evidence on "inflammaging," no population-representative longitudinal studies have specifically examined women's late-life inflammation trends. While a range of studies indicates estradiol's immunomodulation role, evidence is contradictory on whether its effects are pro- or antiinflammatory among older women. Using longitudinal data from the first two waves of the National Social Life, Health and Agi…
Network Connections and Salivary Testosterone Among Older U.S. Women
Rather than being a static and exogenous biological factor, older women's testosterone levels seem partly an outcome of their social context. Implications for sexual health and hormone therapy are discussed. However, this androgen also influences dimensions of their intimate networks critical to successful aging. Findings suggest the need for social scientists to engage with the neuroendocrine literature, which offers suggestions on linkages of h…
Depression, Inflammation, and Physiological Risk in Late Life
This nationally representative study queried effects of community dwelling older adults' depression and inflammation at baseline on over-time changes in surrogate markers of their cardiometabolic risk. Data were from the 2005-2006 and 2010-2011 waves of the U.S. National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. Inflammation was indicated by C-reactive protein and depression by the CES-D scale. Cardiometabolic markers included hemoglobin A1c and sy…
Crossover” in Depressive Symptoms Among Older Couples
Objective: This study examined effects of a partner's depressive symptoms on those of a focal respondent. Method: Data were from the 2008-through-2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Linear growth modeling was used to distinguish within- from between-person variation, and genetic instrumental variables to take endogeneity into account. Results: A partner's 2008 depressive symptoms had no associations with within-person change in those o…
Major Discrimination Experiences, Education, and Genes
Objectives: Rather than acting as a buffer, educational attainment has a known positive linkage with major experiences of lifetime discrimination. Recently established genetic roots of education, then, may also influence such reports. The current study examined these patterns. Methods: Data were from the 2010 wave of the Health and Retirement Study. Polygenic scores indexed one's genetic propensity for more education. Mediation analysis was throu…
Chronic Ongoing Stressors and C-Reactive Protein
Objectives: Literature suggests C-reactive protein (CRP)-as a marker of low-grade systemic inflammation-may mediate the linkage between chronic stressors and cardiometabolic conditions. Previous population-based reports are based on weak methodologies and may have yielded incorrect inferences. The current study examined linkages of within-person CRP variation with corresponding variation in stressor burdens. Method: Data were from the 2006, 2010,…
Genes, Childhood Trauma, and Late Life Depressive Symptoms
Objectives: Findings on gene-environment correlations suggest childhood "environments" may reflect genetic liabilities. The independent psychosocial influence of childhood trauma is unclear. This study examined such effects on adulthood depressive symptoms. Methods: Data were from the Health and Retirement Study. Trauma items included childhood physical abuse and parental substance abuse. Multinomial logit models examined genetic effects on stabl…
Transpersonal Genetic Effects Among Older U.S. Couples
In addition to the subject-specific linkages emphasized in extant genetics literature, relational contexts involve multiple transpersonal genetic associations. These appear to have consequences for a partner's and one's own health. Life-course theory indicates that a person is never not embedded in such contexts, suggesting that these patterns may be widespread. Research is needed on their implications for the life-course and gene-environment cor…
Loneliness does (not) have cardiometabolic effects
Genes, depressive symptoms, and chronic stressors
Social Integration, Self-Rated Health . . . and Genes
Objective: This study examined genetic roots of later life social integration, and their confounding of this social factor’s health linkages. Method: Data were from the 2010 wave of the Health and Retirement Study. Two dimensions of integration were examined: with one’s “stakeholder” network of family and friends and with the community. Genetic measures included polygenic scores for extraversion and educational attainment. Results: Ties to one’s …
Is Loneliness Adaptive? A Dynamic Panel Model Study of Older U.S. Adults
Loneliness seems to induce domain- and gender-specific sociality responses. Findings suggest implications for evolutionary models of sociality as well as for psychosocial and physical health. Pending replication in independent samples, inferences remain tentative
Genes-in-Dyads
OBJECTIVES: Using dyadic genetic information on older couples, this study queried associations of a polygenic score for well-being with one's own as well as a partner's relationship experiences. METHOD: Data were from the 2010 wave of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. Analysis was through structural equation modeling. RESULTS: Especially among women, the genetic score was associated with individuals' own relationship experiences. Genetic exte…
Psychology (28 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Gerontology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Demography (13 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Demography (9 works)