ArticleCulture and brain
Culture, inequality, and health: evidence from the MIDUS and MIDJA comparison.
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- Social asymmetry and physical health in the United States and Japan.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Educational disparities in 20-year trajectories of psychological well-being in a national sample.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Estimating survival in data-driven phenotypes of mental health symptoms and peripheral biomarkers: A prospective study.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Unpacking Psychological Vulnerabilities in Deaths of Despair.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Historical change in midlife health, well-being, and despair: Cross-cultural and socioeconomic comparisons.The American psychologist · 2021Article
- Prospective cohort study on the social determinants of health: Tehran University of Medical Sciences employees` cohort (TEC) study protocol.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Meaning in life: resilience beyond reserve.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2018Article
- Personality and sleep quality: Evidence from four prospective studies.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
- Blood biomarkers of Hikikomori, a severe social withdrawal syndrome.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Eudaimonic well-being, inequality, and health: Recent findings and future directions.International review of economics · 2017Article
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Abstract
This article seeks to forge scientific connections between three overarching themes (culture, inequality, health). Although the influence of cultural context on human experience has gained notable research prominence, it has rarely embraced another large arena of science focused on the influence social hierarchies have on how well and how long people live. That literature is increasingly focused psychosocial factors, working interactively with biological and brain-based mechanisms, to account for why those with low socioeconomic standing have poorer health. Our central question is whether and how these processes might vary by cultural context. We draw on emerging findings from two parallel studies, Midlife in the U.S. and Midlife in Japan, to illustrate the cultural specificity evident in how psychosocial and neurobiological factors are linked with each other as well as how position in social hierarchies matters for psychological experience and biology. We conclude with suggestions for future multidisciplinary research seeking to understand how social hierarchies matter for people's health, albeit in ways that may possibly differ across cultural contexts.
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