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Watch the film "Stress - Portrait of a Killer" and answer the associated film questions.
1. Why are baboons a good model for understanding chronic stress in humans?
2. What are the primary stress hormones in humans and non-human primates and how do they aid in survival?
3. Why has the stress response gotten out of control in contemporary human societies?
4. What are the links between stress, rank, and health in baboons and macaques?
5. What were the key findings of the Michael Marmot/Whitehall studies on stress and health? What aspects of social life appear to be the most important in triggering the stress response?
6. How is chronic stress related to brain function?
7. What have we learned from the Dutch Hunger Winter studies about fetal programming of the stress response?
8. How do cultural factors in human and non-human primate societies contribute to patterns of exposure to stress and the buffering of the effects of chronic stress?
9. What can we do about chronic stress in contemporary human societies? How do we minimize its effects?