?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Selection+pressure+and+organizational+cognition%3A+implications+for+the+social+determinants+of+health&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=We+model+the+effects+of+Schumperterian+'selecton+pressures'+--+in+particular+Apartheid+and+the+neoliberal+'market+economy'+--+on+organizational+cognition+in+minority+communities%2C+given+the+special+role+of+culture+in+human+biology.++Our+focus+is+on+the+dual-function+social+networks+by+which+culture+is+imposed+and+maintained+on+individuals+and+by+which+immediate+patterns+of+opportunity+and+threat+are+recognized+and+given+response.++A+mathematical+model+based+on+recent+advances+in+complexity+theory+displays+a+joint+cross-scale+linkage+of+social%2C+individual+central+nervous+system%2C+and+immune+cognition+with+external+selection+pressure+through+mixed+and+synergistic+punctuated+'learning+plateaus.'++This+provides+a+natural+mechanism+for+addressing+the+social+determinants+of+health+at+the+individual+level.++The+implications+of+the+model%2C+particularly+the+predictions+of+synergistic+punctuation%2C+appear+to+be+empirically+testable.&rft.date=2001-05&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1526%2F3%2Fselcog1.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick++(2001)+Selection+pressure+and+organizational+cognition%3A+implications+for+the+social+determinants+of+health.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1526%2F