Hormonal responses to brief social interactions: The role of psychosocial stress and relationship status.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effects of psychosocial stress on hormonal responses to a social interaction with an opposite-sex individual to test the hypothesis that stress may interfere with or suppress adaptive neuroendocrine responses to courtship opportunities. Heterosexual men and women were randomly assigned prior to arrival to either a control or psychosocial stress condition (Trier Social Stress Test) and subsequently went through a social interaction test with an opposite-sex individual. Expected increases of testosterone for control participants who interacted with opposite-sex individuals were not observed, and changes in testosterone were not observed for those in the psychosocial stress condition either. However, exploratory analyses in control participants showed main and inte

SUBMITTER: Nickels McLean N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10289427 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature