The stress response systems: Universality and adaptive individual differences

Developmental Review

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-212

  Ellis, Bruce J ^a   Jackson, Jenée James ^a   Boyce, W Thomas ^b  

^a Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; Evolutionary psychology; Molecular genetics; Ontogeny; Phenotypic plasticity; Stress physiology; Stress reactivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646815349     PISSN: 02732297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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