When Foes Loom Large: Representations of Relative Formidability and Social Cognition

Monday, December 07, 2015

Colin Holbrook

Research Scientist, UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, & Culture
University of California, Los Angeles

Persistent racial disparities in health represent a significant social and moral dilemma, as well as a serious public health concern. Racism is a fundamental cause of disease, and is physically embodied through social and psychobiological mechanisms. A social toxin, racism can be experienced environmentally at the area-level, as well as interpersonally through inter-personal experiences of racism, which impact biological processes underlying multiple disease pathways including via accelerated aging at the cellular level.

Video Recording:
Causes of Death: Mechanisms of Racial Disparities in Health Web:
http://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/seminars/Fall2017/Chae_Du_Bois_Rev_2011.pdf