Steroids and peptides mediate a diverse array of animal social behaviors. Human research
is restricted by technical–ethical limitations, and models of the neuroendocrine regulation of
social–emotional behavior are therefore mainly limited to non-human species, often under
the assumption that human social–emotional behavior is emancipated from hormonal
control. Development of acute hormone administration procedures in human research,
together with the advent of novel non-invasive neuroimaging techniques, have opened up …