Little is known about human fathers' physiology near infants' births. This may represent a
period during which paternal psychobiological axes are sensitive to fathers' new …

Parents lay the foundation for their children's socio‐emotional experiences by sensitively
responding to their needs. The hormonal and neurobiological changes that occur during the …

Male life history strategies are regulated by the neuroendocrine system. Testosterone (T)
and cortisol regulate male behaviors including parenting and facilitate managing tradeoffs at …

As a result of societal changes, fathers participate more actively in child care than they used
to. In this article, we propose a context‐dependent biobehavioral model of emergent …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. We review recent research on the roles
of hormones and social experiences on the development of paternal care in humans and …

Parental responsiveness to infant vocalizations is an essential mechanism to ensure
parental care, and its importance is reflected in a specific neural substrate, the …

The growing involvement of fathers in childcare is followed by an increased interest in the
neurobiology of fatherhood; yet, experimental work on the neuroendocrine basis of paternal …

Little is known about the physiological and behavioral changes that expectant fathers
undergo prior to the birth of their babies. We measured hormone concentrations and …

Paternal care is facilitated by a decline in testosterone levels following the transition to
fatherhood. This process is considered to mediate a trade-off between mating and parenting …

In a minority of mammalian species, mothers depend on others to help raise their offspring.
New research is investigating the neuroendocrine mechanisms supporting this allomaternal …