Biological sensitivity to context

BJ Ellis, WT Boyce - Current directions in psychological …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Conventional views suggest that exaggerated biological reactivity to stress is a harmful
vestige of an evolutionary past in which threats to survival were more prevalent and severe. …

Biological sensitivity to context: I. An evolutionary–developmental theory of the origins and functions of stress reactivity

WT Boyce, BJ Ellis - Development and psychopathology, 2005 - cambridge.org
… reactivity reflect an underlying biological sensitivity to contextual signals. Finally, exploring
this reconceptualization of exaggerated reactivity as context sensitivity, we construct an …

The contributions of early experience to biological development and sensitivity to context

NR Bush, WT Boyce - Handbook of developmental psychopathology, 2014 - Springer
… the biological embedding of early life experience and the manner in which context and biology
… In particular, we approach this work through the lens of Biological Sensitivity to Context

Biological sensitivity to context: II. Empirical explorations of an evolutionary–developmental theory

BJ Ellis, MJ Essex, WT Boyce - Development and psychopathology, 2005 - cambridge.org
… In this paper, we therefore refer to biological sensitivity to context (BSC) as a phenotypic
property of individuals, which has both constitutional and experiential origins, and is indexed by …

Biological sensitivity to context: A test of the hypothesized U-shaped relation between early adversity and stress responsivity

N Shakiba, BJ Ellis, NR Bush… - Development and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We conducted signal detection analyses to test for curvilinear, U-shaped relations between
early experiences of adversity and heightened physiological responses to challenge, as …

Biological sensitivity to context: The interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional behavior and school readiness

J Obradović, NR Bush, J Stamperdahl… - Child …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… outcomes in the context of high adversity but with better adaption in the context of low …
of stress reactivity as biological sensitivity to context by showing that high reactivity can both …

Quality of early family relationships and the timing and tempo of puberty: Effects depend on biological sensitivity to context

BJ Ellis, EA Shirtcliff, WT Boyce, J Deardorff… - Development and …, 2011 - cambridge.org
… theories of biological sensitivity to context and reproductive … children displaying heightened
biological sensitivity to context (ie, … No such effects emerged among less context-sensitive

Biological sensitivity to context moderates the effects of the early teacher–child relationship on the development of mental health by adolescence

MJ Essex, JM Armstrong, LR Burk… - Development and …, 2011 - cambridge.org
… The moderating effects of biological sensitivity to context (… Grade 1 measures of biological
sensitivity to context included … arguments regarding biological sensitivity to context and …

Biological sensitivity to context as a dyadic construct: An investigation of child–parent RSA synchrony among low-SES youth

A Oshri, S Liu, CM Suveg, MOB Caughy… - Development and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
… The biological sensitivity to context theory suggests that respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) …
ibility to rearing contexts. However, self-regulation in the family context is increasingly viewed …

[HTML][HTML] Biological sensitivity to context: Cortisol awakening response moderates the effects of neighbourhood density on the development of adolescent externalizing …

R Yu, J Nieuwenhuis, W Meeus, P Hooimeijer… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
… A low biological sensitivity to context is defined as individuals’ low ability to process … Low
biological sensitivity individuals might display a lack of biological sensitivity to environmental …