This $256,049 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative international research project investigating the relationship between cultural norms, human behaviors, and health outcomes. The research involves ethnographic and biomarker data collection and analysis conducted by a multidisciplinary team of anthropologists, psychologists, and biologists. Key objectives include evaluating how cultural values are shared, internalized, and enacted into behaviors, as well as measuring the health impacts, particularly psychosocial stress, associated with adherence to or deviation from socially prescribed norms. The 20-month project, which commenced on October 1, 2024, is led by Florida State University's Sponsored Research Administration division. The findings will be broadly disseminated to academic and non-academic audiences to further the biocultural understanding of how culture shapes health.
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