Why interventions to influence adolescent behavior often fail but could succeed

DS Yeager, RE Dahl, CS Dweck - … on Psychological Science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We provide a developmental perspective on two related issues:(a) why traditional
preventative school-based interventions work reasonably well for children but less so for …

The reality and evolutionary significance of human psychological sex differences

J Archer - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Exogenous testosterone rapidly increases aggressive behavior in dominant and impulsive men

JM Carré, SN Geniole, TL Ortiz, BM Bird, A Videto… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Although traditional wisdom suggests that baseline levels of testosterone (T)
promote aggressive behavior, decades of research have produced findings that have been …

Human social neuroendocrinology: Review of the rapid effects of testosterone

SN Geniole, JM Carré - Hormones and behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Contribution to Special Issue on Fast effects of steroids. It is well documented that
testosterone concentrations change rapidly within reproductively relevant contexts (eg …

Testosterone, cortisol, and status-striving personality features: A review and empirical evaluation of the Dual Hormone hypothesis

NM Grebe, M Del Giudice, ME Thompson… - Hormones and …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Functional significance of men's testosterone reactivity to social stimuli

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 …

A review of human male field studies of hormones and behavioral reproductive effort

PB Gray, TS McHale, JM Carré - Hormones and Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Using a psychopharmacogenetic approach to identify the pathways through which—and the people for whom—testosterone promotes aggression

SN Geniole, TL Procyshyn, N Marley… - Psychological …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Little is known about the neurobiological pathways through which testosterone promotes
aggression or about the people in whom this effect is observed. Using a …

Human reproductive behavior, life history, and the challenge hypothesis: a 30-year review, retrospective and future directions

PB Gray, AA Straftis, BM Bird, TS McHale… - Hormones and Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Testosterone and androgen receptor gene polymorphism are associated with confidence and competitiveness in men

C Eisenegger, R Kumsta, M Naef, J Gromoll… - Hormones and …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …