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Ben Trumble

Ben Trumble
Anthropology
UCSB
Postdoctoral Scholar

Ben Trumble is a postdoctoral scholar at UCSB who manages the Human Biodemography Lab.  His research focuses on human biodemography, exploring how the social and physical environment can impact human physiology.  His laboratory and field studies examine hormone-behavior interactions; specifically the relationship between testosterone, behavior, environment, and the implications this has for male health and life histories in industrial and forager-horticultural populations. His other research interests include biodemography of ageing, immune function, prostate cancer, risk taking behavior, costly signaling, and the development of population level biomarker assays.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

NSF. 2014. RAPID: Surviving the Flood: Vulnerability, Risk Management, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster.  Co-PI with Michael Gurven, BCS-1440212. $126,000.

trumble@isber.ucsb.edu
(206) 708-9012
https://sites.google.com/site/bentrumble/

Publications

Snipes SA, Hayes-Constant TK, Trumble BC, Goodreau SM, Morrison DM, Shell-Duncan B, Pelman RS, O’Connor KA.  (2015). 
"Masculine perspectives about family and work concurrently promote and inhibit men's health behaviors."
International Journal of Men's Health.
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Sex and Gender
Steiglitz, J, Trumble, B, Emery Thompson, M, Blackwell, AD, Kaplan, H, Gurven, M. (2015)
"Depression as sickness behavior? A test of the host defense hypothesis in a high pathogen population, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity."
in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2015.05.008
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health
Jaeggi, A.V., Trumble, B., Kaplan, H.S., Gurven, M. 2015. 
"Salivary oxytocin increases concurrently with testosterone and time away from home among returning Tsimane hunters."
Biology Letters20150058. 
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution
Trumble BC, Eid Rodriguez D, Cortez Linares E, Kaplan H, Gurven M. (2015).  
"Challenging the inevitability of age-related prostate enlargement: low levels of benign hyperplasia among Bolivian Amerindians."
Journal of Gerontology:  Medical Sciences.
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution
Stieglitz, J., Jaeggi, A., Blackwell, A., Trumble, BC., Gurven, M., and Kaplan, H. (In Press).
"Work to live and live to work: Productivity, transfers, and psychological well-being in adulthood and old age."
In: Weinstein, M., and Lane, M. (eds.). Advances in bio-demography: cross-species comparisons of social environments and social behaviors, and their effects on health and longevity. National Academy Press.
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution
Von Rueden C, Trumble BC, Blackwell AD, Stieglitz J, Kaplan H, Gurven M (2014).  
"Political influence in an egalitarian society associates with lower cortisol but not lower disease burden."
Evolution Medicine and Public Health.
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution
Trumble BC, Smith EA, O’Connor KA, Kaplan HS, Gurven MD.  (2014).  
"Successful hunting increases testosterone and cortisol in a subsistence population."
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281:20132876
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution
Trumble, B., Cummings, D.K., O’Connor, K.A., Holman, D.J., Smith, E.A., Kaplan, H.S., Gurven, M.D. In press.
"Age-independent increases in male salivary testosterone during horticultural activity among Tsimane forager-farmers."
Evolution and Human Behavior. 
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution
Trumble BC, Stieglitz J, Emery Thompson M, Fuerstenberg E, Kaplan H, Gurven M.  (2014). 
"Testosterone and male cognitive performance in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists."
American Journal of Human Biology. 
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Sex and Gender