Stark, Oded; Wlodarczyk, Julia - 2024
A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so …-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015 …. (2023), who state that "social hierarchies directly influence stress status" (Smith-Osborne et al. p. 1537, italics added …