Is paternal oxytocin an oxymoron? Oxytocin, vasopressin, testosterone, oestradiol and cortisol in emerging fatherhood

MJ Bakermans-Kranenburg… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… ) potentially involved in becoming and being a father, oxytocin (OT) seemed least related to
childbirth or quality of paternal interactions with the newborn in the current study. Despite its …

Testosterone, oxytocin, and the development of human parental care

I Gordon, M Pratt, K Bergunde, O Zagoory-Sharon… - Hormones and …, 2017 - Elsevier
… little research addressed their combined contribution to the development of human …
associations with prototypical patterns of maternal and paternal caregiving, and whether T …

Oxytocin administration, salivary testosterone, and father–infant social behavior

O Weisman, O Zagoory-Sharon, R Feldman - Progress in Neuro …, 2014 - Elsevier
… of paternal care in humans is limited. The steroid Testosterone (T) and the neuropeptide
Oxytocin (… Father–infant interaction was micro-coded for paternal and infant social behavior and …

… ' and fathers' joint profiles for testosterone and oxytocin in a small‐scale fishing‐farming community: Variation based on marital conflict and paternal contributions

LT Gettler, MS Sarma, S Lew‐Levy, A Bond… - Brain and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… had less marital conflict had reduced testosterone and higher oxytocin. In contrast, mothers
… lower testosterone and higher oxytocin. Mothers had higher oxytocin and lower testosterone

A systematic review of human paternal oxytocin: Insights into the methodology and what we know so far

S Grumi, A Saracino, BL Volling… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Oxytocin (OT) has been linked with maternal bonding and caregiving, but less is known about
the role of OT in human fatherhood and paternal … quality of paternal physical stimulation in …

Fathers' oxytocin responses to first holding their newborns: interactions with testosterone reactivity to predict later parenting behavior and father‐infant bonds

LT Gettler, PX Kuo, MS Sarma… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Specifically, testosterone and oxytocin are two signals that potentially contribute … fathers’
physiological reactivity for key parental hormones (oxytocin, testosterone, and cortisol) in …

Pair-bonding, fatherhood, and the role of testosterone: A meta-analytic review

NM Grebe, RE Sarafin, CR Strenth, S Zilioli - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
… Again, given the large global variation in relationship and paternity norms, we included
the effect if it separated fathers from non-fathers, regardless of pair-bond status. However, to …

Paternal care impacts oxytocin expression in California mouse offspring and basal testosterone in female, but not male pups

CN Yohn, AB Leithead, J Ford, A Gill… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… in part, by paternal behavior as adult offspring model the degree of parental behavior received
in … by transient increases in testosterone following paternal retrievals and increased adult …

Primate paternal care: interactions between biology and social experience

AE Storey, TE Ziegler - Hormones and Behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
… of testosterone and higher concentrations of oxytocin are associated with greater paternal
… secretion of prolactin and oxytocin may be related to paternal experience in male marmosets…

Oxytocin: a parenting hormone

R Feldman, MJ Bakermans-Kranenburg - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
… changes in oxytocin, vasopressin, prolactin, testosterone, … In the following we focus on
oxytocin (OT) as a key hormone in … OT meaningfully contribute to the expression of parental care…