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Adrenocortical Responses to Daily Stressors Are Calibrated by Early Life Adversity: An Investigation of the Adaptive Calibration Model.
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- Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Binge Drinking among Adults: The Moderating Effect of Race/Ethnicity.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Empirical Evidence for the Developmental Origins of Autonomic Stress Regulation: An Attachment Account.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Adaptive calibration in a world of human universals.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Recognition of adaptive stress response patterns in adolescents based on multiple hair biomarkers.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- FMR1 Premutation Carrier Mothers' Daily Negative Affect and Cortisol: Probing the Impacts of Stress Exposure, Coping Style, and CGG Repeats.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities · 2025Article
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Abstract
Studies examining the impact of early adversity on physiological responsivity to environmental challenges in later life yield a complex pattern of findings and ambiguity regarding the direction of effect, with some studies reporting heightened responses and others reporting dampened responses. One potential reason for these mixed findings is an oversimplified theoretical model surrounding the connection between early life stressor exposure and subsequent stress responsivity. The adaptive calibration model offersa contemporary set of assumptions aimed at providing a better understanding of the ways that early life experiences shape the stress response system to better align with current and future environments. The current study utilized a large subsample from the National Study of Daily Experiences (
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