The aims of this article are:(i) to provide a quantitative overview of sex differences in human psychological attributes; and (ii) to consider evidence for their possible evolutionary origins …
Background Although traditional wisdom suggests that baseline levels of testosterone (T) promote aggressive behavior, decades of research have produced findings that have been …
Abstract Contribution to Special Issue on Fast effects of steroids. It is well documented that testosterone concentrations change rapidly within reproductively relevant contexts (eg …
Decades of research in behavioral endocrinology has implicated the gonadal hormone testosterone in the regulation of mating effort, often expressed in primates in the form of …
S Zilioli, BM Bird - Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 2017 - Elsevier
Rapid testosterone fluctuations in response to social stimuli are observed across a wide range of species, and the highly conserved nature of these fluctuations suggests an …
The purpose of this paper is to review field studies of human male hormones and reproductive behavior. We first discuss life history theory and related conceptual …
Little is known about the neurobiological pathways through which testosterone promotes aggression or about the people in whom this effect is observed. Using a …
Abstract The Challenge Hypothesis (Wingfield et al., 1990) originally focused on adult male avian testosterone elevated in response to same-sex competition in reproductive contexts …
A contribution to a special issue on Hormones and Human Competition. Studies in non- human animals and humans have demonstrated the important role of testosterone in …