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studies, focused on the interaction of cultural, social, psychological, nutritional, and genetic influences on health. It was in the context of this research that
Dressler developed the theory and method of cultural consonance as a means of locating individuals in the cultural space defined by shared cultural models.
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Dressler also established a long-term relationship with researchers in Brazil, including José Ernesto dos Santos, Mauro C. Balieiro, and Rosane Pilot Pessa. Together, these investigators carried out five major projects over a thirty-year period, as well as a number of smaller
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Dressler conducted his dissertation fieldwork on the West Indian island of St. Lucia. This was an early contribution to a biocultural orientation in medical anthropology in that he examined how individual-level changes in social status related to economic development were associated with blood
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Dressler describes cultural consonance as "the degree to which individuals, in their own beliefs and behaviors, approximate the prototypes for belief and behavior encoded in cultural models. Higher cultural consonance is associated with better health status (assessed psychologically,
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Also in 2019 he was selected to present in the "Last
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Dressler, W. W., Balieiro, M. C., & dos Santos, J. E. (2015). Finding
Culture Change in the Second Factor: Stability and Change in Cultural Consensus and Residual Agreement. Field Methods, 27(1), 22–38.
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Dressler, William W.; Bindon, JR (2000) "The health consequences of cultural consonance: Cultural dimensions of lifestyle, social support, and arterial blood pressure in an
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He was president of the
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Romney, A. Kimball; Weller, Susan C.; & William H. Batchelder. (1986) "Culture as
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Dressler also contributed to the development of "residual agreement analysis,' a way of quantifying aspects of variation and non-agreement in culturally shared ideas.
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summarized much of that work. It examined the complex ways that cultural, historical, psychological, and physiological factors can interact to shape health outcomes.
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pressure. He won the Stirling Award in Culture and Personality Studies from the American Anthropological Association in 1979 for a paper based on this research.
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Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2019) Agency, cultural consonance, and depressive symptoms: A Brazilian example.
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Gravlee, Clarence C. and William W. Dressler. (2005) "Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico."
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