HOD-1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Robert Sapolsky, Celebrity Culture, Consumerism

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Human and Organizational Development
• Course: HOD-1250
• Professor: Griffith Brian

Document Summary

One of the leading researchers on the damaging effects of social stress on our psychological and physical health. After years of research, his broadest conclusion was that the stress of everyday social life is literally killing us. Sapolsky"s (1994) longest running research study followed a troop of baboons in kenya for 35 years. He picked a troop of baboons living in the best of all possible baboon worlds; an environment with a plentiful supply of food and very little threat from predators, free to generate social stress within their own community. Conclusion: it is actually our advantages that free us to obsess about our dissatisfaction with our family and friends and what other people think of us. Identified emerging adulthood as a new developmental period stretching from late adolescence until about age 30. Response to cultural and economic forces that have been pushing back the age at which most young adults achieve full independence.