We present empirical measures of wealth inequality and its intergenerational transmission among four horticulturalist populations. Wealth is construed broadly as embodied somatic and neural capital, including body size, fertility and cultural knowledge, material capital such as land and household wealth, and relational capital in the form of coalitional support and field labor. Wealth inequalit...

People differ in the size of their social network, and thus in the properties of the linguistic input they receive. This article examines whether differences in social network size influence individuals' linguistic skills in their native language, focusing on global comprehension of evaluative language. Study 1 exploits the natural variation in social network size and shows that individuals wit...

Offline social capital in the form of interpersonal networks is known to be associated with subjective well-being (SWB). In two studies run in the US (N 1⁄4 153) and Germany (N 1⁄4 187), we initially investigated whether the size of an individual's Facebook social network was associated with SWB and perceived social support. Objectively measured Facebook network size was positively associated w...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between the number of personal ties (or the size of the social support network) and the incidence of osteoporosis among older women in Korea. METHODS Data from the Korean Urban Rural Elderly Study were used. Bone density was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry at the lumbar spine (L1-L4) and femur neck. T-score, the standardized bone density c...

One central question in social science and evolutionary anthropology is how humans can form maintain large networks. The brain hypothesis argues that use their mentalizing ability to read others’ minds for the development of dyadic relationships layered However, previous empirical studies have not directly examined association between size active network located at outermost layer. By introduci...

This study examined relationships between social support, stressful life events and antigen-specific cell-mediated immunity. Participants were 72 women with documented metastatic breast carcinoma, who completed self-report measures of social support and life stress. Immune response was assessed using the delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) skin test. Number of positive antigens was significantl...

OBJECTIVES Research has shown that obesity appears to spread through social ties. However, the association between other characteristics of social networks and obesity is unclear. This study aimed to identify the association between social network characteristics and body mass index (BMI, kg/m(2)) in an elderly Korean population. METHODS This cross-sectional study analyzed data from 657 Korea...

intordaction : religion and its concepts have been a main as well as unique source in producing social capital. the development of social capital, as the raw material for a civil society, depends on certain variables including religion and religious culture. in spite of numerous researches on social capital and its factors, there are few systematic studies undertaken to examine interrelationshi...