Books and Monographs
Dressler, William W. (2018) Culture and the Individual: Theory and Method of Cultural Consonance. New York: Routledge
Winner, Society for Anthropological Sciences Book Award, 2019
Dressler, William W. (2015) The 5 Things You Need to Know About Statistics: Quantification in Ethnographic Research. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Poggie, John J., Billie R. Dewalt, and William W. Dressler, Editors. (1992) Anthropological Research: Process and Application. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Dressler, William W. (1991) Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture: Depression in a Southern Black Community. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Dressler, William W. (1982) Hypertension and Culture Change: Acculturation and Disease in the West Indies. South Salem, NY: Redgrave Publishing Co.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Dressler, William W. (2024) Race and public health, in press in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. 2nd Ed. William Cockerham, Johathan Gabe, Stella Quah, and J. Michael Ryan, Eds. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2024) A longitudinal study of cultural consonance, personal agency, and psychological distress in urban Brazil. Behavioral Sciences 14: 762. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14090762
Dressler, William W. (2024) Cultural consonance: Extending cultural consensus theory, pp. 221-237 in Culture In and Out of Mind: Cultural Model Theory. Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, and Stephen Chrisomalis, Eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weller, Susan C., Jeffrey C. Johnson, and William W. Dressler. (2024) Validating cultural models with cultural consensus theory, pp. 161-188 in Culture In and Out of Mind: Cultural Model Theory. Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, and Stephen Chrisomalis, Eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dengah, H.J. François II, William W. Dressler, and Ana Falcão. (2024) The domestication of machismo in Brazil: Motivations, reflexivity, and consonance of religious male gender roles. Behavioral Sciences 14: 132 https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14020132
Pessa, Rosane Pilot and William W. Dressler. (2023). Measuring cultural consonance., pp. 312-315, in The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors. Alissa Ruth, Amber Wutich, and H.Russel Bernard, Eds. Oxford, England: Routledge.
Henderson, N. L., Dressler, W. W., Pegoraro, N. P. J., Falcão, A., & Pillon, S. C. (2023). Distance from a cultural model of substance use risk, internalization, and self-stigma in urban Brazil. Frontiers in Psychology. 14: 1264436.
Snodgrass, Jeffrey G., Alexandra Brewis, H.J. François Dengah II, William W. Dressler, Bonniie Kaiser, Brandon Kohrt, Emily Mendenhall, Seth Sagsetter, Lesley Jo Weaver, Katya Xinyi Zhao. (2023) Ethnographic methods for identifying cultural concepts of distress: Developing reliable and valid measures. Field Methods 35 (3): 175-197.
Weller, Susan C., Jeffrey Johnson, and William W. Dressler. (2023) Validating cultural models with cultural consensus theory. Qualitative Psychology 10 (2): 359-369.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2023) Distance from a cultural prototype and psychological distress in urban Brazil: A model. Journal of Cognition and Culture 23: 218-240.
Monocello, Lawrence T. and William W. Dressler. (2022) Cultural consonance, body image, disordered eating, and intersectionality among young South Korean men. Social Science & Medicine 314: 115486.
Andrews, C., Oths, K. S., & Dressler, W. W. (2022) Time in the united states and diabetes among Mexican immigrant women: The moderating role of culture. Journal of Migration and Health 6: 100118
Henderson, Nicole L., Lawrence T. Monocello, Robert Else, and William W. Dressler. (2022) Modeling culture: A framework. Ethos 50: 111-130.
Andrews, Courtney, Kathryn S Oths, and William W. Dressler. (2022) Age at arrival and depression among Mexican immigrant women in Alabama: The moderating role of culture. International Journal of Environmental Reearch and Public Health 19 (9), 5342.
Pessa, Rosane P., Kathryn S. Oths, William W. Dressler, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2022) Cultural consonance in food consumption and nutrient intake in southern Brazil. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 61 (3): 385-405.
Dressler, William W. (2022) Cultural competence, pp. 375-378 in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design. Bruce B. Frey, Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781071812082.n139
Brewis, A., B. Piperata, H.J.F Dengah II, W. Dressler, M.A. Liebert, S. Mattison, R. Negrón, R. Nelson, K. Oths, J.G. Snodgrass, S. Tanner, Z. Thayer, K. Wander, and C. Gravlee. (2021). Biocultural strategies for measuring psychosocial stress outcomes in field-based research. Field Methods 33(4): 315-334.
Andrews, Courtney, Kathryn S. Oths, and William W. Dressler. (2020) La buena vida: A multi-centric cultural model among Mexican immigrant women in Alabama. Journal of Anthropological Research 76 (4): 507-530.
Manochio, Maria Garcia, Antônio dos Santos, Élide Dezoti Valdanha-Ornelas, José Ernesto dos Santos, William W. Dressler, and Rosane Pilot Pessa. (2020) Significados atribuídos ao alimento por pacientes com Anorexia Nervosa e por mulheres jovens eutróficas. Fractal: Revista de Psicologia 32 (2): 120-131.
Dressler, William W. (2020) Cultural consensus and cultural consonance: Advancing a cognitive theory of culture. Field Methods 32: 383-398.
Dressler, William W. (2020) The construction of the cultural niche: A biocultural model. American Journal of Human Biology 32: e23311
Monocello, Lawrence and William W. Dressler. (2020) Flower boys and muscled men: Comparing South Korean and American male body ideals using cultural consensus analysis. Anthropology & Medicine 27: 176-191.
Bennett, Karl and William W. Dressler. (2020) Variation in cultural consensus between expert and novice Brazilian jiu jitsu athletes. Martial Arts Studies 9: 43-53.
Henderson, Nicole L. and William W. Dressler. (2020). Cultural models of substance use risk and attributed stigma: A comparison of young adults in Brazil and the United States. Cross-Cultural Research 54: 209-237.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2019) Agency, cultural consonance, and depressive symptoms: A Brazilian example. Ethos 47: 148-167.
Henderson, Nicole L. and William W. Dressler. (2019). Cultural models of substance misuse risk and moral foundations: Cognitive resources underlying stigma attribution. Journal of Cognition and Culture 19: 78-96.
Dressler, William W. (2018) Stress and culture, in International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hillary Callan, Ed. New York: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1615
Dressler, William W. (2018) Cultural consonance, pp. 194-203 in Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry. 2nd Ed. Dinesh Bhugra and Kameldeep Bhui, Editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2018) What you know, what you do, and how you feel: Cultural competence, cultural consonance, and psychological distress. Frontiers in Psychology 8: 2355. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02355
Henderson, Nicole L. and William W. Dressler. (2017). Medical disease or moral defect? Stigma attribution and cultural models of addiction causality in a university population. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 41: 480-498.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2017) Cultural consonance in life goals and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Research 73: 43-65.
Kagawa Singer, Marjorie, William W. Dressler, Sheba George, and the NIH Expert Panel. (2016) Culture: The missing link in health research. Social Science and Medicine 170: 237-246.
Dressler, William.W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Luiza F. de Araújo, Wilson A Silva, Jr., and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2016) The interaction of cultural consonance and a polymorphism in the 2A serotonin receptor in relation to depression in Brazil: Failure to replicate previous findings. American Journal of Human Biology 28: 936-940.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2016) Culture and the immune system: Cultural consonance in social support and C-reactive protein in urban Brazil. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 30: 259-277.
Dressler, William.W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Luiza F. de Araújo, Wilson A Silva, Jr., and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2016) Culture as a mediator of gene-environment interaction: Cultural consonance, childhood adversity, a 2A serotonin receptor polymorphism, and depression in urban Brazil. Social Science and Medicine 161: 109-117.
Dressler, William W. (2016) Stress in indigenous societies, pp. 429-434 in Stress Concepts and Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior. Vol. 1: Handbook of Stress. George Fink, Ed. San Diego, CA: Elsevier.
Dressler, William W. (2015) Modernization and disease, pp. 383-392 in Basics in Human Evolution. Michael Muehlenbein, Ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Dressler, William W., Juan C. Gonzalez Feraco, Michael D. Murphy, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2015) Consonancia cultural: una teoría y un método para el estudio de la cultura y la salud. Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares 70: 453-468.
Manochio-Pina, Marina Garcia, José Ernesto dos Santos, William W. Dressler, and Rosane Pilot Pessa Ribeiro. (2015) Eating disorders: Cultural models and consensus regarding food. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 54: 418-435.
Dressler, William W. (2015) “Culture”…Again. Anthropology News 56: 20.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2015) Culture as a mediator of health disparities. Annals of Anthropological Practice 38: 214-231.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2015) Finding culture in the second factor: Stability and change in cultural consensus and residual agreement. Field Methods 27: 22-38.
Dressler, William W. (2014) Race and public health, pp. 2017-2021 in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. William W. Cockerham, Robert Dingall, and Stella Quah, Eds. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Dressler, William W. and Kathryn S. Oths. (2014) Social survey methods, pp. 497-515 in Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Ed. H. Russell Bernard and Clarence C. Gravlee, Eds. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
Dressler, William W., H.J. François Dengah, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2013) Cultural consonance, religion, and psychological distress in urban Brazil. Paidéia: Cadernos de Psicologia e Educação 23: 151-160.
Dressler, William W. (2012) Cultural consonance: Linking culture, the individual, and health. Preventive Medicine 55: 390-393.
Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2012) How culture shapes the body: Cultural consonance and body mass in urban Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 24: 325-331.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2012) Cultural consonance, consciousness, and depression: Genetic moderating effects on the psychological mediators of culture, pp. 363-388 in The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey, Eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Balieiro, Mauro C., Manoel A. dos Santos, José Ernesto dos Santos, and William W. Dressler. (2011) Does perceived stress mediate the effect of cultural consonance on depression? Transcultural Psychiatry 48: 519-538.
Dressler, William W. (2011) Culture and the stress process, pp. 119-134 in A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Merrill Singer and Pamela Erickson, Eds. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Dressler, William W. (2010) Social inequality and health: A commentary. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24: 549-554.
Dressler, William W. (2010) Medical anthropology, pp. 277-289 in Handbook of Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. Jerry Suls, Katrina Davidson and Robert Kaplan, Eds. New York: Guilford Press.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2009) Cultural consonance, a 5HT2A receptor polymorphism, and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal study of gene x culture interaction in urban Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 21: 91-97.
Newkirk, Christine N, Kathryn S. Oths, William W. Dressler, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2009) Intracultural diversity in food knowledge in southern Brazil. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 48: 285-302.
Dressler, William W. (2009) Explaining health inequalities, pp. 175-184 in Health, Risk and Adversity. Catherine Panter-Brick and Agustín Fuentes, Editors. New York: Bergahn Books.
Collins, Cyleste and William W. Dressler (2008) Cultural models of the causes of domestic violence:
A comparison of the perspectives of social work and anthropology students. Journal of Social Work Education 44: 53-74.
Collins, Cyleste and William W. Dressler (2008) Cultural consensus and cultural diversity: A mixed methods investigation of human service providers' models of domestic violence. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 2: 362-387.
Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, Rosane P. Ribeiro, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2008) Cultural consonance and adult body composition in urban Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 20: 15-22.
Dressler, William W. and Kathryn S. Oths. (2008) Reflections on teaching SCRM: Survey research methods in anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 30: 40-41.
Dressler, William W. (2007) Meaning and structure in research in medical anthropology. Anthropology in Action 14: 30-43.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2007) A prospective study of cultural consonance and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil. Social Science and Medicine 65: 2058-2069.
Garcia, Javier Garcia de Alba, Ana L. Salcedo Rocha, Ivette Lopez, William W. Dressler, and Susan C. Weller. (2007) “Diabetes is my companion:” Lifestyle and self-management among good and poor control Mexican diabetics. Social Science and Medicine 64: 2223-2235.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2007) Cultural consonance and psychological distress: Examining the associations in multiple cultural domains. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 31: 195-224.
Bindon, James R., William W. Dressler, Janice D. Gilliland, Douglas R. Crews. (2007) A cross-cultural perspective on obesity and health in three groups of women: The Mississippi Choctaw, American Samoans, and African Americans. Collegium Athropologicum 31: 47-54.
Dressler, William W. (2007) Stress in indigenous societies, pp. 511-516 in Encyclopedia of Stress. 2nd edition. George Fink, Ed. Oxford: Academic Press.
Dressler, William W. (2007) Cultural consonance, pp. 179- 190 in Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry. Dinesh Bhugra and Kameldeep Bhui, Editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto Dos-Santos. (2006) Depressive symptoms and c-reactive protein in a Brazilian urban community. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 39: 1013-1019.
Dressler, William W. (2006) Cultural dimensions of the stress process: Measurement issues in fieldwork, pp. 27-59 in Measuring Stress in Humans. Gillian Ice and Gary D. James, Editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gravlee, Clarence C., William W. Dressler, and H. Russell Bernard. (2005) Skin color, social classification, and blood pressure in southeastern Puerto Rico. American Journal of Public Health 95: 2191-2197.
Gravlee, Clarence C. and William W. Dressler. (2005) Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Human Biology 17: 195-206.
Jaskyte, Kristina and William W. Dressler (2005) Organizational culture and innovation in nonprofit human service organizations. Administration in Social Work 29: 23-41.
Dressler, William W. (2005) What’s cultural about biocultural research? Ethos 33: 20-45.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2005) Cultural consonance and arterial blood pressure in urban Brazil. Social Science and Medicine 61: 527-540.
Dressler, William W., Camila D. Borges, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2005) Measuring cultural consonance: Examples with special reference to measurement theory in anthropology. Field Methods 17: 331-355.
Dressler, William W. (2005) Epidemiology, pp. 793-802 in The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Vol I. Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Editor. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2005) Race and ethnicity in public health research: Models to explain health disparities, pp. 231-252 in Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 34. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews.
Dressler, William W., Rosane P. Ribeiro, Mauro C. Balieiro, Kathryn S. Oths, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2004) Eating, drinking and being depressed: The social, cultural and psychological context of alcohol consumption and nutrition in a Brazilian community. Social Science and Medicine 59: 709-720.
Dressler, William W. (2004) Culture and the risk of disease. British Medical Bulletin 69: 21-31.
Jaskyte, Kristina and William W. Dressler. (2004) Studying culture as an integral aggregate variable: organizational culture and innovation in a group of nonprofit organizations. Field Methods 16: 265-284.
Dressler, William W. (2004) Culture, stress and cardiovascular disease, pp. 328-334 in The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology. Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, Editors. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Dressler, William W. (2004) Social or status incongruence, pp. 764-767 in The Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior. Norman B. Anderson, Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Dressler, William W. (2004) Cognitive anthropology, pp. 139-140 in The Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman and Tim Futing Liao, Eds. London: Sage Publications.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2002) Cultural consonance and psychological distress. Paidéia: Cadernos de Psicologia e Educação 12: 5-18.
Dos-Santos, JE, KS Oths, and WW Dressler (2001) Socioeconomic factors and adult body composition in a developing society. Revista Brasileira de Hipertensão. 8: 173-178.
Dressler, William W. and José Ernesto Dos-Santos. (2001) Correlaçoes sociais e culturais com a pressão arterial: os estudos de Dressler e Dos-Santos. Revista Brasileira de Hipertensão. 8: 225-229.
Dressler, William W. (2001) Medical anthropology: Toward a third moment in social science? Medical Anthropology Quarterly 15: 455-465.
Dressler, William W. and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2000) Social and cultural dimensions of hypertension in Brazil: A review. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 16: 303-315.
Dressler, William W. and James R. Bindon. (2000) The health consequences of cultural consonance: cultural dimensions of lifestyle, social support and arterial blood pressure in an African American community. American Anthropologist 102: 244-260.
Neggers, Yasmin, James R. Bindon, and William W. Dressler. (2000) The relationship between zinc and copper status and lipid levels in African Americans. Biological Trace Element Research 78: 1-13.
Dressler, William W. (2000) Stress in Indigenous Societies, pp. 558-564 in Encyclopedia of Stress, Vol. 2. George Fink, Ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
MacNeil, Gordon, William W. Dressler, and Allan V. Kaufman. (2000) Ethnic differences in risk factors associated with substance use in adolescence, pp. 110-124 in International Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Nirbhay N. Singh, Jin Pang Leung and Ashvind N. Singh, Eds. New York: Elsevier Science.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. (1999) Culture, skin color, and arterial blood pressure in Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 11: 49-59.
MacNeil, Gordon., Allan V. Kaufman, William W. Dressler, and C.W. LeCroy. (1999) Psychosocial moderators of substance use among middle school-aged adolescents. Journal of Drug Education 29: 25-39.
Dressler, William W. (1999) Modernization, stress and blood pressure: New directions in research. Human Biology 71: 583-605.
Dressler, William W., James R. Bindon, and Yasmin R. Neggers. (1998) John Henryism, gender, and arterial blood pressure in an African American community. Psychosomatic Medicine 60: 620-624.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. (1998) Culture,socioeconomic status and physical and mental health in Brazil. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12: 424-446.
Dressler, William W., James R. Bindon and Yasmin R. Neggers. (1998) Culture, socioeconomic status, and coronary heart disease risk factors in an African American community. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 21: 527-544.
Bindon, James R., Amy Knight, William W. Dressler, and Douglas E. Crews. (1997) Social context and psychosocial influences on blood pressure among American Samoans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 103: 7-18.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. (1997) The cultural construction of social support in Brazil: Associations with health outcomes. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 21: 303-335.
Dressler, William W. and Kathryn S. Oths. (1997) Cultural determinants of health behaviors, in Handbook of Health Behavior Research, Vol. I: Determinants of Health Behavior, Personal and Social. David S. Gochman, Editor. New York: Plenum Press.
Dressler, William W. (1996) Hypertension in the African American community: social, psychological,and cultural determinants. Seminars in Nephrology. 16: 71-82.
Dressler, William W. (1996) Social identity and arterial blood pressure in the African American community. Ethnicity and Disease 6: 176-189.
Dressler, William W. (1996) Using cultural consensus analysis to develop a measurement: A Brazilian example. Cultural Anthropology Methods 8: 6-8.
Dressler, William W., Jose Ernesto Dos Santos, and Mauro Campos Balieiro. (1996) Studying diversity and sharing in culture: An example of lifestyle in Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Research 52: 331-353.
Dressler, William W. and James R. Bindon. (1996) Social status, social context, and arterial blood pressure. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 102: 55-66.
Dressler, William W., James R. Bindon, and M. Janice Gilliland. (1996) Status incongruence and plasma glucose among the Mississippi Choctaw. Medical Anthropology 17: 165-180.
Dressler, William W. (1996) Culture, stress and disease, pp. 252-271 in Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method. Rev. Ed. Thomas M. Johnson and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds.) Westport, CT: Praeger.
Dressler, William W. and Susan Haworth-Hoeppner. (1996) A typology of household structure in the black community, pp. 465-474 in Handbook of Tests and Measurement for Black Populations. Reginald L. Jones, Ed. Hampton, VA: Cobb and Henry Publishers.
Dressler, William W., Gerald A.C. Grell, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1995) Intracultural diversity and the sociocultural correlates of blood pressure: a Jamaican example. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9: 291-313.
Dressler, William W. (1995) Modeling biocultural interactions in anthropological research: an example from research on stress and cardiovascular disease. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 38: 27-56.
Dressler, William W. (1994) Social status, age, and blood pressure in an English general practice. Collegium Antropologicum 18: 73-80.
Dressler, William W. (1994) Social status and the health of families: a model. Social Science and Medicine 39: 1605-1613.
Santos, Jose Ernesto Dos, William W. Dressler, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1994) Fatores de risco de doença arterial coronariana e suas correlações com variáveis dietéticas e sociais. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 63:371-375.
Dressler, William W. (1994) Cross‑cultural differences and social influences in social support and cardiovascular disease, pp. 167-192 in Social Support and Cardiovascular Disease. Sally A. Shumaker and Susan M. Czajkowski (eds.) New York: Plenum Publishing.
Dressler, William W. (1993) Type A behavior: contextual effects within a southern black community. Social Science and Medicine 36: 289-295.
Dressler, William W. (1993) A commentary on community research. The American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 9: 32-34.
Dressler, William W. (1993) Health in the African - American community: accounting for health inequalities. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 7: 325-345.
Dressler, William W., J.E.D. Santos, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1993) Social and cultural influences in the risk of cardiovascular disease in urban Brazil, pp. 10-25 in Urban Health and Ecology in the Third World. Lawrence M. Schell, Malcolm T. Smith, and Alan Bilsborough, (eds) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dressler, William W. (1993) Social and cultural dimensions of hypertension in blacks: underlying mechanisms, pp. 69-89 in Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Blacks. Janice G. Douglas and John C.S. Fray (eds.) New York: Oxford University Press.
Dressler, William W., Philip Evans, and Denis J. Pereira Gray. (1992) Status incongruence and serum cholesterol in an English general practice. Social Science and Medicine 34: 757-762.
Dressler, William W., Gerald A.C. Grell, Philip N. Gallagher, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1992) Social factors mediating social class differences in blood pressure in a Jamaican community. Social Science and Medicine 35: 1233-1244.
Dressler, William W. (1992) Culture, stress, and depressive symptoms: building and testing a model in a specific setting, pp. 19-33 in Anthropological Research: Process and Application. John J. Poggie, Billie R. DeWalt, and William W. Dressler (eds.) Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Poggie, John J., Jr., Billie R. DeWalt, and William W. Dressler. (1992) Introduction, pp 1-14 in Anthropological Research: Process and Application. John J. Poggie, Billie R. DeWalt, and William W. Dressler (eds.) Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Bindon, James R. and William W. Dressler. (1992) Social status and growth: theoretical and methodological considerations, pp. 61-70 in Health and Lifestyle Change. R. Huss-Ashmore, J. Schall, and M. Heidiger (eds.) MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Vol. 9. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
Dressler, William W. (1991) Social class, skin color, and arterial blood pressure in two societies. Ethnicity and Disease 1: 60-77.
Dressler, William W., J.E.D. Santos, Fernando E. Viteri, and Philip N. Gallagher. (1991) Social and dietary predictors of serum lipids: a Brazilian example. Social Science and Medicine 32: 1229-1235.
Bindon, J.R., D.E. Crews, and W.W. Dressler. (1991) Life style, modernization, and adaptation among Samoans. Collegium Antropologicum 15: 101-110.
Dressler, William W. (1991) Social support, lifestyle incongruity, and arterial blood pressure in a Southern black community. Psychosomatic Medicine 53: 608-620.
Dressler, William W., Fernando E. Viteri, Adolfo Chavez, Gerald A.C. Grell, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. (1991) Comparative research in social epidemiology: measurement issues. Ethnicity and Disease 1: 379-393.
Dressler, William W. (1990) Lifestyle, stress, and blood pressure in a Southern black community. Psychosomatic Medicine 52: 182-198.
Dressler, William W. (1990) Education, lifestyle, and arterial pressure. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 34: 515-523.
Dressler, William W. (1990) Culture, stress and disease, pp. 248-267 in Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method. Thomas M. Johnson and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds.) New York: Greenwood Press.
Adams, James P., Allan V. Kaufman, and William W. Dressler. (1989) Predictors of social isolation in a sample of older southern adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology 8: 365-381.
Dressler, William W. (1989) Type A behavior and the social production of cardiovascular disease. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 177: 181-190.
Dressler, William W. (1988) Social consistency and psychological distress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 29: 79‑91.
Dressler, William W., Gerald A. C. Grell, Philip N. Gallagher, Jr., and Fernando E. Viteri. (1988) Blood pressure and social class in a Jamaican community. American Journal of Public Health 78: 714‑716.
Adams, James P. and William W. Dressler. (1988) Perceptions of injustice in a Black community:dimensions and variation. Human Relations 41: 753‑767.
Dressler, William W., Jose Ernesto Dos Santos, Philip N. Gallagher, Jr. and Fernando E. Viteri. (1987) Arterial blood pressure and modernization in Brazil. American Anthropologist 89: 389‑409.
Dressler, William W., Alfonso Mata, Adolfo Chavez, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1987) Arterial blood pressure and individual modernization in a Mexican community. Social Science and Medicine 24: 679‑687.
Dressler, William W. (1987) The stress process in a Southern black community: implications for prevention research. Human Organization 46: 211‑220.
Dressler, William W. (1986) Unemployment and depressive symptoms in a southern black community. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 17: 639‑645.
Dressler, William W., Alfonso Mata, Adolfo Chavez, Fernando E. Viteri, and Phillip Gallagher. (1986) Social support and arterial pressure in a central Mexican community. Psychosomatic Medicine 48: 338‑350.
Dressler, William W., Jose Ernesto Dos Santos, and Fernando E.Viteri. (1986) Blood pressure, ethnicity, and psychosocial resources. Psychosomatic Medicine 48: 509‑519.
Dressler, William W. (1985) Extended family relationships, social support, and mental health in a Southern black community. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 26: 39‑48.
Dressler, William W. and Lee W. Badger. (1985) Epidemiology of depressive symptoms in black communities: a comparative analysis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 173: 212‑220.
Dressler, William W. (1985) Psychosomatic symptoms, stress, and modernization: a model. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 9: 257‑286.
Dressler, William W. (1985) The social and cultural context of coping: action, gender, and symptoms in a Southern black community. Social Science and Medicine 21: 499‑506.
Dressler, William W., Susan Haworth‑Hoeppner, and Barbara J. Pitts. (1985) Household structure in a Southern black community. American Anthropologist 87: 853‑862.
Dressler, William W. (1985) Stress and sorcery in three social groups. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 31: 275‑281.
Dressler, William W. (1984) Social and cultural influences in cardiovascular disease: a review. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review 21: 5‑42.
Dressler, William W. (1984) Hypertension and perceived stress: a St. Lucian example. Ethos 12: 265‑283.
Dressler, William W. (1984) Hypertension and culture change in the Caribbean, pp. 69‑93 in Health Care in the Caribbean and Central America. Frank McGlynn (ed.). Studies in Third World Societies, Pub. No. 30. Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary.
Dressler, William W. (1983) Blood pressure, relative weight, and psychosocial resources. Psychosomatic Medicine 45: 527‑536.
Dressler, William W. and Henrietta Bernal. (1982) Acculturation and stress in a low income Puerto Rican community. Journal of Human Stress 8: 32‑38.
Dressler, William W. (1980) Ethnomedical beliefs and patient adherence to a treatment regimen: a St.Lucian example. Human Organization 39: 88‑91.
Dressler, William W. (1980) Coping dispositions, social supports, and health status. Ethos 8: 146‑171.
Dressler, William W. (1979) "Disorganization," adaptation, and arterial blood pressure. Medical Anthropology 3: 225‑248.
Lieberman, Dena and William W. Dressler. (1977) Bilingualism and cognition of St. Lucian disease terms. Medical Anthropology 1: 81‑110.
Dressler, William W. and Michael C. Robbins. (1975) Art styles, social stratification, and cognition: an analysis of Greek vase painting. American Ethnologist 2: 427‑434
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2024) A longitudinal study of cultural consonance, personal agency, and psychological distress in urban Brazil. Behavioral Sciences 14: 762. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14090762
Dressler, William W. (2024) Cultural consonance: Extending cultural consensus theory, pp. 221-237 in Culture In and Out of Mind: Cultural Model Theory. Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, and Stephen Chrisomalis, Eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weller, Susan C., Jeffrey C. Johnson, and William W. Dressler. (2024) Validating cultural models with cultural consensus theory, pp. 161-188 in Culture In and Out of Mind: Cultural Model Theory. Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, and Stephen Chrisomalis, Eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dengah, H.J. François II, William W. Dressler, and Ana Falcão. (2024) The domestication of machismo in Brazil: Motivations, reflexivity, and consonance of religious male gender roles. Behavioral Sciences 14: 132 https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14020132
Pessa, Rosane Pilot and William W. Dressler. (2023). Measuring cultural consonance., pp. 312-315, in The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors. Alissa Ruth, Amber Wutich, and H.Russel Bernard, Eds. Oxford, England: Routledge.
Henderson, N. L., Dressler, W. W., Pegoraro, N. P. J., Falcão, A., & Pillon, S. C. (2023). Distance from a cultural model of substance use risk, internalization, and self-stigma in urban Brazil. Frontiers in Psychology. 14: 1264436.
Snodgrass, Jeffrey G., Alexandra Brewis, H.J. François Dengah II, William W. Dressler, Bonniie Kaiser, Brandon Kohrt, Emily Mendenhall, Seth Sagsetter, Lesley Jo Weaver, Katya Xinyi Zhao. (2023) Ethnographic methods for identifying cultural concepts of distress: Developing reliable and valid measures. Field Methods 35 (3): 175-197.
Weller, Susan C., Jeffrey Johnson, and William W. Dressler. (2023) Validating cultural models with cultural consensus theory. Qualitative Psychology 10 (2): 359-369.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2023) Distance from a cultural prototype and psychological distress in urban Brazil: A model. Journal of Cognition and Culture 23: 218-240.
Monocello, Lawrence T. and William W. Dressler. (2022) Cultural consonance, body image, disordered eating, and intersectionality among young South Korean men. Social Science & Medicine 314: 115486.
Andrews, C., Oths, K. S., & Dressler, W. W. (2022) Time in the united states and diabetes among Mexican immigrant women: The moderating role of culture. Journal of Migration and Health 6: 100118
Henderson, Nicole L., Lawrence T. Monocello, Robert Else, and William W. Dressler. (2022) Modeling culture: A framework. Ethos 50: 111-130.
Andrews, Courtney, Kathryn S Oths, and William W. Dressler. (2022) Age at arrival and depression among Mexican immigrant women in Alabama: The moderating role of culture. International Journal of Environmental Reearch and Public Health 19 (9), 5342.
Pessa, Rosane P., Kathryn S. Oths, William W. Dressler, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2022) Cultural consonance in food consumption and nutrient intake in southern Brazil. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 61 (3): 385-405.
Dressler, William W. (2022) Cultural competence, pp. 375-378 in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design. Bruce B. Frey, Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781071812082.n139
Brewis, A., B. Piperata, H.J.F Dengah II, W. Dressler, M.A. Liebert, S. Mattison, R. Negrón, R. Nelson, K. Oths, J.G. Snodgrass, S. Tanner, Z. Thayer, K. Wander, and C. Gravlee. (2021). Biocultural strategies for measuring psychosocial stress outcomes in field-based research. Field Methods 33(4): 315-334.
Andrews, Courtney, Kathryn S. Oths, and William W. Dressler. (2020) La buena vida: A multi-centric cultural model among Mexican immigrant women in Alabama. Journal of Anthropological Research 76 (4): 507-530.
Manochio, Maria Garcia, Antônio dos Santos, Élide Dezoti Valdanha-Ornelas, José Ernesto dos Santos, William W. Dressler, and Rosane Pilot Pessa. (2020) Significados atribuídos ao alimento por pacientes com Anorexia Nervosa e por mulheres jovens eutróficas. Fractal: Revista de Psicologia 32 (2): 120-131.
Dressler, William W. (2020) Cultural consensus and cultural consonance: Advancing a cognitive theory of culture. Field Methods 32: 383-398.
Dressler, William W. (2020) The construction of the cultural niche: A biocultural model. American Journal of Human Biology 32: e23311
Monocello, Lawrence and William W. Dressler. (2020) Flower boys and muscled men: Comparing South Korean and American male body ideals using cultural consensus analysis. Anthropology & Medicine 27: 176-191.
Bennett, Karl and William W. Dressler. (2020) Variation in cultural consensus between expert and novice Brazilian jiu jitsu athletes. Martial Arts Studies 9: 43-53.
Henderson, Nicole L. and William W. Dressler. (2020). Cultural models of substance use risk and attributed stigma: A comparison of young adults in Brazil and the United States. Cross-Cultural Research 54: 209-237.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2019) Agency, cultural consonance, and depressive symptoms: A Brazilian example. Ethos 47: 148-167.
Henderson, Nicole L. and William W. Dressler. (2019). Cultural models of substance misuse risk and moral foundations: Cognitive resources underlying stigma attribution. Journal of Cognition and Culture 19: 78-96.
Dressler, William W. (2018) Stress and culture, in International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hillary Callan, Ed. New York: Wiley
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Dressler, William W. (2018) Cultural consonance, pp. 194-203 in Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry. 2nd Ed. Dinesh Bhugra and Kameldeep Bhui, Editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2018) What you know, what you do, and how you feel: Cultural competence, cultural consonance, and psychological distress. Frontiers in Psychology 8: 2355. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02355
Henderson, Nicole L. and William W. Dressler. (2017). Medical disease or moral defect? Stigma attribution and cultural models of addiction causality in a university population. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 41: 480-498.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2017) Cultural consonance in life goals and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Research 73: 43-65.
Kagawa Singer, Marjorie, William W. Dressler, Sheba George, and the NIH Expert Panel. (2016) Culture: The missing link in health research. Social Science and Medicine 170: 237-246.
Dressler, William.W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Luiza F. de Araújo, Wilson A Silva, Jr., and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2016) The interaction of cultural consonance and a polymorphism in the 2A serotonin receptor in relation to depression in Brazil: Failure to replicate previous findings. American Journal of Human Biology 28: 936-940.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2016) Culture and the immune system: Cultural consonance in social support and C-reactive protein in urban Brazil. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 30: 259-277.
Dressler, William.W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Luiza F. de Araújo, Wilson A Silva, Jr., and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2016) Culture as a mediator of gene-environment interaction: Cultural consonance, childhood adversity, a 2A serotonin receptor polymorphism, and depression in urban Brazil. Social Science and Medicine 161: 109-117.
Dressler, William W. (2016) Stress in indigenous societies, pp. 429-434 in Stress Concepts and Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior. Vol. 1: Handbook of Stress. George Fink, Ed. San Diego, CA: Elsevier.
Dressler, William W. (2015) Modernization and disease, pp. 383-392 in Basics in Human Evolution. Michael Muehlenbein, Ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Dressler, William W., Juan C. Gonzalez Feraco, Michael D. Murphy, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2015) Consonancia cultural: una teoría y un método para el estudio de la cultura y la salud. Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares 70: 453-468.
Manochio-Pina, Marina Garcia, José Ernesto dos Santos, William W. Dressler, and Rosane Pilot Pessa Ribeiro. (2015) Eating disorders: Cultural models and consensus regarding food. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 54: 418-435.
Dressler, William W. (2015) “Culture”…Again. Anthropology News 56: 20.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2015) Culture as a mediator of health disparities. Annals of Anthropological Practice 38: 214-231.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2015) Finding culture in the second factor: Stability and change in cultural consensus and residual agreement. Field Methods 27: 22-38.
Dressler, William W. (2014) Race and public health, pp. 2017-2021 in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. William W. Cockerham, Robert Dingall, and Stella Quah, Eds. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Dressler, William W. and Kathryn S. Oths. (2014) Social survey methods, pp. 497-515 in Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Ed. H. Russell Bernard and Clarence C. Gravlee, Eds. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
Dressler, William W., H.J. François Dengah, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2013) Cultural consonance, religion, and psychological distress in urban Brazil. Paidéia: Cadernos de Psicologia e Educação 23: 151-160.
Dressler, William W. (2012) Cultural consonance: Linking culture, the individual, and health. Preventive Medicine 55: 390-393.
Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2012) How culture shapes the body: Cultural consonance and body mass in urban Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 24: 325-331.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2012) Cultural consonance, consciousness, and depression: Genetic moderating effects on the psychological mediators of culture, pp. 363-388 in The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey, Eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Balieiro, Mauro C., Manoel A. dos Santos, José Ernesto dos Santos, and William W. Dressler. (2011) Does perceived stress mediate the effect of cultural consonance on depression? Transcultural Psychiatry 48: 519-538.
Dressler, William W. (2011) Culture and the stress process, pp. 119-134 in A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Merrill Singer and Pamela Erickson, Eds. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Dressler, William W. (2010) Social inequality and health: A commentary. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24: 549-554.
Dressler, William W. (2010) Medical anthropology, pp. 277-289 in Handbook of Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. Jerry Suls, Katrina Davidson and Robert Kaplan, Eds. New York: Guilford Press.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2009) Cultural consonance, a 5HT2A receptor polymorphism, and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal study of gene x culture interaction in urban Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 21: 91-97.
Newkirk, Christine N, Kathryn S. Oths, William W. Dressler, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2009) Intracultural diversity in food knowledge in southern Brazil. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 48: 285-302.
Dressler, William W. (2009) Explaining health inequalities, pp. 175-184 in Health, Risk and Adversity. Catherine Panter-Brick and Agustín Fuentes, Editors. New York: Bergahn Books.
Collins, Cyleste and William W. Dressler (2008) Cultural models of the causes of domestic violence:
A comparison of the perspectives of social work and anthropology students. Journal of Social Work Education 44: 53-74.
Collins, Cyleste and William W. Dressler (2008) Cultural consensus and cultural diversity: A mixed methods investigation of human service providers' models of domestic violence. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 2: 362-387.
Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, Rosane P. Ribeiro, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2008) Cultural consonance and adult body composition in urban Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 20: 15-22.
Dressler, William W. and Kathryn S. Oths. (2008) Reflections on teaching SCRM: Survey research methods in anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 30: 40-41.
Dressler, William W. (2007) Meaning and structure in research in medical anthropology. Anthropology in Action 14: 30-43.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2007) A prospective study of cultural consonance and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil. Social Science and Medicine 65: 2058-2069.
Garcia, Javier Garcia de Alba, Ana L. Salcedo Rocha, Ivette Lopez, William W. Dressler, and Susan C. Weller. (2007) “Diabetes is my companion:” Lifestyle and self-management among good and poor control Mexican diabetics. Social Science and Medicine 64: 2223-2235.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2007) Cultural consonance and psychological distress: Examining the associations in multiple cultural domains. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 31: 195-224.
Bindon, James R., William W. Dressler, Janice D. Gilliland, Douglas R. Crews. (2007) A cross-cultural perspective on obesity and health in three groups of women: The Mississippi Choctaw, American Samoans, and African Americans. Collegium Athropologicum 31: 47-54.
Dressler, William W. (2007) Stress in indigenous societies, pp. 511-516 in Encyclopedia of Stress. 2nd edition. George Fink, Ed. Oxford: Academic Press.
Dressler, William W. (2007) Cultural consonance, pp. 179- 190 in Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry. Dinesh Bhugra and Kameldeep Bhui, Editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto Dos-Santos. (2006) Depressive symptoms and c-reactive protein in a Brazilian urban community. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 39: 1013-1019.
Dressler, William W. (2006) Cultural dimensions of the stress process: Measurement issues in fieldwork, pp. 27-59 in Measuring Stress in Humans. Gillian Ice and Gary D. James, Editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gravlee, Clarence C., William W. Dressler, and H. Russell Bernard. (2005) Skin color, social classification, and blood pressure in southeastern Puerto Rico. American Journal of Public Health 95: 2191-2197.
Gravlee, Clarence C. and William W. Dressler. (2005) Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Human Biology 17: 195-206.
Jaskyte, Kristina and William W. Dressler (2005) Organizational culture and innovation in nonprofit human service organizations. Administration in Social Work 29: 23-41.
Dressler, William W. (2005) What’s cultural about biocultural research? Ethos 33: 20-45.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2005) Cultural consonance and arterial blood pressure in urban Brazil. Social Science and Medicine 61: 527-540.
Dressler, William W., Camila D. Borges, Mauro C. Balieiro, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2005) Measuring cultural consonance: Examples with special reference to measurement theory in anthropology. Field Methods 17: 331-355.
Dressler, William W. (2005) Epidemiology, pp. 793-802 in The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Vol I. Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Editor. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2005) Race and ethnicity in public health research: Models to explain health disparities, pp. 231-252 in Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 34. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews.
Dressler, William W., Rosane P. Ribeiro, Mauro C. Balieiro, Kathryn S. Oths, and José Ernesto Dos Santos. (2004) Eating, drinking and being depressed: The social, cultural and psychological context of alcohol consumption and nutrition in a Brazilian community. Social Science and Medicine 59: 709-720.
Dressler, William W. (2004) Culture and the risk of disease. British Medical Bulletin 69: 21-31.
Jaskyte, Kristina and William W. Dressler. (2004) Studying culture as an integral aggregate variable: organizational culture and innovation in a group of nonprofit organizations. Field Methods 16: 265-284.
Dressler, William W. (2004) Culture, stress and cardiovascular disease, pp. 328-334 in The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology. Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, Editors. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Dressler, William W. (2004) Social or status incongruence, pp. 764-767 in The Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior. Norman B. Anderson, Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Dressler, William W. (2004) Cognitive anthropology, pp. 139-140 in The Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman and Tim Futing Liao, Eds. London: Sage Publications.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2002) Cultural consonance and psychological distress. Paidéia: Cadernos de Psicologia e Educação 12: 5-18.
Dos-Santos, JE, KS Oths, and WW Dressler (2001) Socioeconomic factors and adult body composition in a developing society. Revista Brasileira de Hipertensão. 8: 173-178.
Dressler, William W. and José Ernesto Dos-Santos. (2001) Correlaçoes sociais e culturais com a pressão arterial: os estudos de Dressler e Dos-Santos. Revista Brasileira de Hipertensão. 8: 225-229.
Dressler, William W. (2001) Medical anthropology: Toward a third moment in social science? Medical Anthropology Quarterly 15: 455-465.
Dressler, William W. and José Ernesto dos Santos. (2000) Social and cultural dimensions of hypertension in Brazil: A review. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 16: 303-315.
Dressler, William W. and James R. Bindon. (2000) The health consequences of cultural consonance: cultural dimensions of lifestyle, social support and arterial blood pressure in an African American community. American Anthropologist 102: 244-260.
Neggers, Yasmin, James R. Bindon, and William W. Dressler. (2000) The relationship between zinc and copper status and lipid levels in African Americans. Biological Trace Element Research 78: 1-13.
Dressler, William W. (2000) Stress in Indigenous Societies, pp. 558-564 in Encyclopedia of Stress, Vol. 2. George Fink, Ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
MacNeil, Gordon, William W. Dressler, and Allan V. Kaufman. (2000) Ethnic differences in risk factors associated with substance use in adolescence, pp. 110-124 in International Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Nirbhay N. Singh, Jin Pang Leung and Ashvind N. Singh, Eds. New York: Elsevier Science.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. (1999) Culture, skin color, and arterial blood pressure in Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology 11: 49-59.
MacNeil, Gordon., Allan V. Kaufman, William W. Dressler, and C.W. LeCroy. (1999) Psychosocial moderators of substance use among middle school-aged adolescents. Journal of Drug Education 29: 25-39.
Dressler, William W. (1999) Modernization, stress and blood pressure: New directions in research. Human Biology 71: 583-605.
Dressler, William W., James R. Bindon, and Yasmin R. Neggers. (1998) John Henryism, gender, and arterial blood pressure in an African American community. Psychosomatic Medicine 60: 620-624.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. (1998) Culture,socioeconomic status and physical and mental health in Brazil. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12: 424-446.
Dressler, William W., James R. Bindon and Yasmin R. Neggers. (1998) Culture, socioeconomic status, and coronary heart disease risk factors in an African American community. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 21: 527-544.
Bindon, James R., Amy Knight, William W. Dressler, and Douglas E. Crews. (1997) Social context and psychosocial influences on blood pressure among American Samoans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 103: 7-18.
Dressler, William W., Mauro C. Balieiro, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. (1997) The cultural construction of social support in Brazil: Associations with health outcomes. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 21: 303-335.
Dressler, William W. and Kathryn S. Oths. (1997) Cultural determinants of health behaviors, in Handbook of Health Behavior Research, Vol. I: Determinants of Health Behavior, Personal and Social. David S. Gochman, Editor. New York: Plenum Press.
Dressler, William W. (1996) Hypertension in the African American community: social, psychological,and cultural determinants. Seminars in Nephrology. 16: 71-82.
Dressler, William W. (1996) Social identity and arterial blood pressure in the African American community. Ethnicity and Disease 6: 176-189.
Dressler, William W. (1996) Using cultural consensus analysis to develop a measurement: A Brazilian example. Cultural Anthropology Methods 8: 6-8.
Dressler, William W., Jose Ernesto Dos Santos, and Mauro Campos Balieiro. (1996) Studying diversity and sharing in culture: An example of lifestyle in Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Research 52: 331-353.
Dressler, William W. and James R. Bindon. (1996) Social status, social context, and arterial blood pressure. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 102: 55-66.
Dressler, William W., James R. Bindon, and M. Janice Gilliland. (1996) Status incongruence and plasma glucose among the Mississippi Choctaw. Medical Anthropology 17: 165-180.
Dressler, William W. (1996) Culture, stress and disease, pp. 252-271 in Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method. Rev. Ed. Thomas M. Johnson and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds.) Westport, CT: Praeger.
Dressler, William W. and Susan Haworth-Hoeppner. (1996) A typology of household structure in the black community, pp. 465-474 in Handbook of Tests and Measurement for Black Populations. Reginald L. Jones, Ed. Hampton, VA: Cobb and Henry Publishers.
Dressler, William W., Gerald A.C. Grell, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1995) Intracultural diversity and the sociocultural correlates of blood pressure: a Jamaican example. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9: 291-313.
Dressler, William W. (1995) Modeling biocultural interactions in anthropological research: an example from research on stress and cardiovascular disease. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 38: 27-56.
Dressler, William W. (1994) Social status, age, and blood pressure in an English general practice. Collegium Antropologicum 18: 73-80.
Dressler, William W. (1994) Social status and the health of families: a model. Social Science and Medicine 39: 1605-1613.
Santos, Jose Ernesto Dos, William W. Dressler, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1994) Fatores de risco de doença arterial coronariana e suas correlações com variáveis dietéticas e sociais. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 63:371-375.
Dressler, William W. (1994) Cross‑cultural differences and social influences in social support and cardiovascular disease, pp. 167-192 in Social Support and Cardiovascular Disease. Sally A. Shumaker and Susan M. Czajkowski (eds.) New York: Plenum Publishing.
Dressler, William W. (1993) Type A behavior: contextual effects within a southern black community. Social Science and Medicine 36: 289-295.
Dressler, William W. (1993) A commentary on community research. The American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 9: 32-34.
Dressler, William W. (1993) Health in the African - American community: accounting for health inequalities. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 7: 325-345.
Dressler, William W., J.E.D. Santos, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1993) Social and cultural influences in the risk of cardiovascular disease in urban Brazil, pp. 10-25 in Urban Health and Ecology in the Third World. Lawrence M. Schell, Malcolm T. Smith, and Alan Bilsborough, (eds) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dressler, William W. (1993) Social and cultural dimensions of hypertension in blacks: underlying mechanisms, pp. 69-89 in Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Blacks. Janice G. Douglas and John C.S. Fray (eds.) New York: Oxford University Press.
Dressler, William W., Philip Evans, and Denis J. Pereira Gray. (1992) Status incongruence and serum cholesterol in an English general practice. Social Science and Medicine 34: 757-762.
Dressler, William W., Gerald A.C. Grell, Philip N. Gallagher, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1992) Social factors mediating social class differences in blood pressure in a Jamaican community. Social Science and Medicine 35: 1233-1244.
Dressler, William W. (1992) Culture, stress, and depressive symptoms: building and testing a model in a specific setting, pp. 19-33 in Anthropological Research: Process and Application. John J. Poggie, Billie R. DeWalt, and William W. Dressler (eds.) Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Poggie, John J., Jr., Billie R. DeWalt, and William W. Dressler. (1992) Introduction, pp 1-14 in Anthropological Research: Process and Application. John J. Poggie, Billie R. DeWalt, and William W. Dressler (eds.) Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Bindon, James R. and William W. Dressler. (1992) Social status and growth: theoretical and methodological considerations, pp. 61-70 in Health and Lifestyle Change. R. Huss-Ashmore, J. Schall, and M. Heidiger (eds.) MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Vol. 9. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
Dressler, William W. (1991) Social class, skin color, and arterial blood pressure in two societies. Ethnicity and Disease 1: 60-77.
Dressler, William W., J.E.D. Santos, Fernando E. Viteri, and Philip N. Gallagher. (1991) Social and dietary predictors of serum lipids: a Brazilian example. Social Science and Medicine 32: 1229-1235.
Bindon, J.R., D.E. Crews, and W.W. Dressler. (1991) Life style, modernization, and adaptation among Samoans. Collegium Antropologicum 15: 101-110.
Dressler, William W. (1991) Social support, lifestyle incongruity, and arterial blood pressure in a Southern black community. Psychosomatic Medicine 53: 608-620.
Dressler, William W., Fernando E. Viteri, Adolfo Chavez, Gerald A.C. Grell, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos. (1991) Comparative research in social epidemiology: measurement issues. Ethnicity and Disease 1: 379-393.
Dressler, William W. (1990) Lifestyle, stress, and blood pressure in a Southern black community. Psychosomatic Medicine 52: 182-198.
Dressler, William W. (1990) Education, lifestyle, and arterial pressure. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 34: 515-523.
Dressler, William W. (1990) Culture, stress and disease, pp. 248-267 in Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method. Thomas M. Johnson and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds.) New York: Greenwood Press.
Adams, James P., Allan V. Kaufman, and William W. Dressler. (1989) Predictors of social isolation in a sample of older southern adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology 8: 365-381.
Dressler, William W. (1989) Type A behavior and the social production of cardiovascular disease. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 177: 181-190.
Dressler, William W. (1988) Social consistency and psychological distress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 29: 79‑91.
Dressler, William W., Gerald A. C. Grell, Philip N. Gallagher, Jr., and Fernando E. Viteri. (1988) Blood pressure and social class in a Jamaican community. American Journal of Public Health 78: 714‑716.
Adams, James P. and William W. Dressler. (1988) Perceptions of injustice in a Black community:dimensions and variation. Human Relations 41: 753‑767.
Dressler, William W., Jose Ernesto Dos Santos, Philip N. Gallagher, Jr. and Fernando E. Viteri. (1987) Arterial blood pressure and modernization in Brazil. American Anthropologist 89: 389‑409.
Dressler, William W., Alfonso Mata, Adolfo Chavez, and Fernando E. Viteri. (1987) Arterial blood pressure and individual modernization in a Mexican community. Social Science and Medicine 24: 679‑687.
Dressler, William W. (1987) The stress process in a Southern black community: implications for prevention research. Human Organization 46: 211‑220.
Dressler, William W. (1986) Unemployment and depressive symptoms in a southern black community. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 17: 639‑645.
Dressler, William W., Alfonso Mata, Adolfo Chavez, Fernando E. Viteri, and Phillip Gallagher. (1986) Social support and arterial pressure in a central Mexican community. Psychosomatic Medicine 48: 338‑350.
Dressler, William W., Jose Ernesto Dos Santos, and Fernando E.Viteri. (1986) Blood pressure, ethnicity, and psychosocial resources. Psychosomatic Medicine 48: 509‑519.
Dressler, William W. (1985) Extended family relationships, social support, and mental health in a Southern black community. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 26: 39‑48.
Dressler, William W. and Lee W. Badger. (1985) Epidemiology of depressive symptoms in black communities: a comparative analysis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 173: 212‑220.
Dressler, William W. (1985) Psychosomatic symptoms, stress, and modernization: a model. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 9: 257‑286.
Dressler, William W. (1985) The social and cultural context of coping: action, gender, and symptoms in a Southern black community. Social Science and Medicine 21: 499‑506.
Dressler, William W., Susan Haworth‑Hoeppner, and Barbara J. Pitts. (1985) Household structure in a Southern black community. American Anthropologist 87: 853‑862.
Dressler, William W. (1985) Stress and sorcery in three social groups. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 31: 275‑281.
Dressler, William W. (1984) Social and cultural influences in cardiovascular disease: a review. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review 21: 5‑42.
Dressler, William W. (1984) Hypertension and perceived stress: a St. Lucian example. Ethos 12: 265‑283.
Dressler, William W. (1984) Hypertension and culture change in the Caribbean, pp. 69‑93 in Health Care in the Caribbean and Central America. Frank McGlynn (ed.). Studies in Third World Societies, Pub. No. 30. Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary.
Dressler, William W. (1983) Blood pressure, relative weight, and psychosocial resources. Psychosomatic Medicine 45: 527‑536.
Dressler, William W. and Henrietta Bernal. (1982) Acculturation and stress in a low income Puerto Rican community. Journal of Human Stress 8: 32‑38.
Dressler, William W. (1980) Ethnomedical beliefs and patient adherence to a treatment regimen: a St.Lucian example. Human Organization 39: 88‑91.
Dressler, William W. (1980) Coping dispositions, social supports, and health status. Ethos 8: 146‑171.
Dressler, William W. (1979) "Disorganization," adaptation, and arterial blood pressure. Medical Anthropology 3: 225‑248.
Lieberman, Dena and William W. Dressler. (1977) Bilingualism and cognition of St. Lucian disease terms. Medical Anthropology 1: 81‑110.
Dressler, William W. and Michael C. Robbins. (1975) Art styles, social stratification, and cognition: an analysis of Greek vase painting. American Ethnologist 2: 427‑434
