ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2022
The social transmission of stress in animal collectives.
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- Physiological synchrony among human fishers during collective hunting with wild dolphins.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Why catch when you can throw? A framework for tagging animals without capture or restraint.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Stress transmission in social groups of mice: unveiling physiological responses, behavioral patterns, and immune dynamics.iScience · 2025Article
- Male and female mice may respectively form stronger social aversive memories with same and different sex conspecifics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Little evidence for a role of facial mimicry in the transmission of stress from parents to adolescent children.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Tofacitinib prevents depressive-like behaviors through decreased hippocampal microgliosis and increased BDNF levels in both LPS-induced and CSDS-induced mice.Acta pharmacologica Sinica · 2025Article
- Social context modulates active avoidance: Contributions of the anterior cingulate cortex in male and female rats.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Article
- Stress in the social environment: behavioural and social consequences of stress transmission in bird flocks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Possible relations between emotional contagion and social buffering.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Anthropogenic impacts at the interface of animal spatial and social behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Contagion of depression: a double-edged sword.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Status-dependent metabolic effects of social interactions in a group-living fish.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Active avoidance recruits the anterior cingulate cortex regardless of social context in male and female rats.Research square · 2024Article
- Physiological and behavioral contagion/buffering effects of chronic unpredictable stress in a socially enriched environment: A preliminary study.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
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Abstract
The stress systems are powerful mediators between the organism's systemic dynamic equilibrium and changes in its environment beyond the level of anticipated fluctuations. Over- or under-activation of the stress systems' responses can impact an animal's health, survival and reproductive success. While physiological stress responses and their influence on behaviour and performance are well understood at the individual level, it remains largely unknown whether-and how-stressed individuals can affect the stress systems of other group members, and consequently their collective behaviour. Stressed individuals could directly signal the presence of a stressor (e.g. via an alarm call or pheromones), or an acute or chronic activation of the stress systems could be perceived by others (as an indirect cue) and spread via social contagion. Such social transmission of stress responses could then amplify the effects of stressors by impacting social interactions, social dynamics and the collective performance of groups. As the neuroendocrine pathways of the stress response are highly conserved among vertebrates, transmission of physiological stress states could be more widespread among non-human animals than previously thought. We therefore suggest that identifying the extent to which stress transmission modulates animal collectives represents an important research avenue.
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