THE VIDEO SHELF · stress and social hierarchy
Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
A short clip of Robert Sapolsky on how social hierarchy generates chronic stress, drawing on baboon research. It links rank-related stress to heart health and life expectancy.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN shares it as a compact explanation of how hierarchy and stress affect health, pointing to the longer full lecture.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TheSymposionNights
- Topic
- stress and social hierarchy
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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That is so true. Primates, not just apes. Here's Sapolsky explaining how stress in an hierarchical social arrangement impacts heart health and life expectancy. [VIDEO]
ak39 on Hacker News · 2015-06
In No Time to Be Nice at WorkThe full length video of his is definitely worth a watch, but if anyone's short on time, there's quite a good much shorter version focussing more on the hierarchy/alpha male side of it - [VIDEO]
Litost on Hacker News · 2024-02
In Chronic stress spreads cancer
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