Related Info Links
More by Authors Links
Journal Browser
Volume | Year
Issue
News and Announcements
PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE
Why postmodern environments promote anxiety: An anthropological perspective for health psychology
Patricia Serrano de la Fuente1,2* ,
Adriana Junquera Blanco1 ,
Pablo Albarracin Marcos1 ,
Alicia Lopez Toledo1 ,
Francisco Montañes-Rada1,2
Show Less
1 Department of Psychiatry, Fundación Alcorcón University Hospital, Alcorcón, Madrid , Spain
2 Rey Juan Carlos University, Alcorcón, Madrid , Spain
HPR, 026170088 https://doi.org/10.36922/HPR026170088
Received: 25 April 2026 | Revised: 30 July 2026 | Accepted: 6 August 2026 | Published online: 8 October 2026
© 2026 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Funding
None.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
References
- Nesse RM. Anxiety disorders in evolutionary perspective. In: Abed R, St John-Smith P, eds. Evolutionary Psychiatry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2022. doi: 10.1017/9781911623625.009
- Grupe DW, Nitschke JB. Uncertainty and anticipation in anxiety: an integrated neurobiological model. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2013;14(7):488-501. doi: 10.1038/nrn3524
- Shonkoff JP, Garner AS, Siegel BS, et al. The lifelong effects of early childhood adversity and toxic stress. Pediatrics. 2012;129(1):e232-e246. doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-2663
- McEvoy PM, Hyett MP, Shihata S, Price JE, Strachan L. The impact of methodological and measurement factors on transdiagnostic associations with intolerance of uncertainty: a meta-analysis. Clin Psychol Rev. 2019;73:101778. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2019.101778
- Baumeister RF, Leary MR. The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychol Bull. 1995;117(3):497-529. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.117.3.497