Hormonal contraceptives as disruptors of competitive behavior: Theoretical framing and review

LC Arthur, KV Casto, KR Blake - Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 2022 - Elsevier
Emerging evidence suggests that hormonal contraceptives (HCs) impact psychological
outcomes through alterations in neurophysiology. In this review, we first introduce a …

Testosterone administration in human social neuroendocrinology: Past, present, and future

JM Carré, BA Robinson - Hormones and Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, social neuroendocrinology researchers have developed
pharmacological challenge paradigms to assess the extent to which testosterone plays a …

Does Testosterone Modulate Aggression and Mating Behavior in Humans? A Narrative Review of Two Decades of single-dose Testosterone Administration Research

JM Carré, CT Hemsworth, IA Alabi - Adaptive Human Behavior and …, 2023 - Springer
Objective Decades of research suggest a small, but significant positive association between
testosterone (T) and measures of aggression and mating psychology/behavior. More …

No compelling evidence that self-reported personality traits explain basal testosterone and cortisol's associations with status-relevant behavior

KV Casto, S Prasad, RA Josephs, S Zilioli… - … Human Behavior and …, 2023 - Springer
Objective A goal of behavioral neuroendocrinology is to understand how basal hormone
levels relate to behavior. Studies of human participants sometimes measure self-reported …

Narcissism moderates the association between basal testosterone and generosity in men

AZ Czarna, M Ziemiańska, P Pawlicki, JM Carré… - Hormones and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Research has linked hormones to behavioral outcomes in intricate ways, often moderated
by psychological dispositions. The associations between testosterone and antisocial or …

The causal effect of testosterone on men's competitive behavior is moderated by basal cortisol and cues to an opponent's status: Evidence for a context-dependent …

EL Knight, PJ Morales, CB Christian… - Journal of Personality …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Testosterone has been theorized to direct status-seeking behaviors, including competitive
behavior. However, most human studies to date have adopted correlational designs, and …

[HTML][HTML] Using true experiments to study culture: Manipulations, measurement issues, and the question of appropriate control groups

C Ma-Kellams - Methods in Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Social group memberships are primarily studied in quasi-experimental contexts, but how
can culture, class and gender be manipulated in true experimental designs? This review …

The effects of exogenous testosterone on economic decision making and executive functioning

B Bird - 2022 - summit.sfu.ca
A small body of correlational work suggests that the steroid hormone testosterone may play
an important role in economic decision-making, although mixed findings have raised …

The effects of exogenous testosterone on sexual risk-taking in men

RE Norman - 2023 - research.library.mun.ca
Research aimed at predicting sexually risky behaviour (SRB) has primarily focused on socio-
demographic, psychological, and behavioural factors. Hence, biological predictors of SRB …

Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior in healthy males

HH Kutlikova, L Zhang, C Eisenegger, J van Honk… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Humans are strategically more prosocial when their actions are being watched by others
than when they act alone. Using a psychopharmacogenetic approach, we investigated the …