Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology (Routledge International Handbooks)

773 Pages·2018·15.658 MB·English

by  Oliver C. Schultheiss (editor), Pranjal H. Mehta (editor)

ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL
HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL
NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
The Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology is an authoritative reference
work providing a balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the
rapidly developing field of social neuroendocrinology. Considering the relationships between
hormones, the brain, and social behavior, this collection brings together groundbreaking research
in the field for the first time.
Featuring 39 chapters written by leading researchers, the handbook offers impressive
breadth of coverage. It begins with an overview of the history of social neuroendocrinology
before discussing its methodological foundations and challenges. Other topics covered include
state-of-the-art research on dominance and aggression; social affiliation; reproduction and
pair bonding (e.g. sexual behavior, sexual orientation, romantic relationships); pregnancy
and parenting; stress and emotion; cognition and decision making; social development; and
mental and physical health. The handbook adopts a lifespan approach to the study of social
neuroendocrinology throughout, covering the roles that hormones play during gestation,
childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. It also illustrates the evolutionary forces that have shaped
hormone-behavior associations across species, including research on humans, non-human
primates, birds, and rodents.
The handbook will serve as an authoritative reference work for researchers, students, and
others intrigued by this topic, while also inspiring new lines of research on interactions among
hormones, the brain, and behavior in social contexts.
Oliver C. Schultheiss is Professor of Psychology at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen,
Germany. His research focuses on the implicit motivational needs for power, achievement,
affiliation, and sex, and their interactions with the endocrine system.
Pranjal H. Mehta is Associate Professor in Experimental Psychology at University College
London, UK. His research examines interactions between hormones, the social environment,
and human behavior with an emphasis on status hierarchies, stress, and decision making.

ROUTLEDGE
INTERNATIONAL
HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL
NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
Edited by Oliver C. Schultheiss
and Pranjal H. Mehta
First published 2019
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Names: Schultheiss, Oliver C., 1967- editor. | Mehta, Pranjal H.,
1977- editor.
Title: Routledge international handbook of social neuroendocrinology /
edited by Oliver C. Schultheiss and Pranjal H. Mehta.
Other titles: International handbook of social neuroendocrinology |
Handbook of social neuroendocrinology
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018020205 | ISBN 9781138711440 (hbk ; alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781315200439 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Human behavior—Endocrine aspects. |
Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Classification: LCC QP356.4 .R68 2019 | DDC 612.8—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020205
ISBN: 978-1-138-71144-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-20043-9 (ebk)
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To my family, Maria, Julian, Leo, Ben, and Jonathan
—O.C.S.
To my parents, Tarika Mehta and Hriday Mehta
—P.H.M

CONTENTS
List of contributors xii
Introduction 1
Oliver C. Schultheiss and Pranjal H. Mehta
SECTION 1
Historical and methodological issues 5
1 History of social neuroendocrinology in humans 7
Allan Mazur
2 Hormone measurement in social neuroendocrinology: a comparison
of immunoassay and mass spectroscopy methods 26
Oliver C. Schultheiss, Gelena Dlugash, and Pranjal H. Mehta
3 Reproducibility in social neuroendocrinology: past, present,
and future 41
Oliver C. Schultheiss and Pranjal H. Mehta
SECTION 2
Dominance and aggression 65
4 Leveraging seasonality in male songbirds to better understand
the neuroendocrine regulation of vertebrate aggression 67
Douglas W. Wacker
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Contents
5 Behavioral and neuroendocrine plasticity in the form of winner
and loser effects 81
Nathaniel S. Rieger, Matthew J. Fuxjager, Brian C. Trainor,
Xin Zhao, and Catherine A. Marler
6 The endocrinology of dominance relations in non-human primates 99
Sean P. Coyne
7 The dual-hormone approach to dominance and status-seeking 113
Amar Sarkar, Pranjal H. Mehta, and Robert A. Josephs
8 Social neuroendocrinology of human aggression: progress
and future directions 133
Justin M. Carré, Emily Jeanneault, and Nicole Marley
SECTION 3
Social affiliation 147
9 Social endocrinology in evolutionary perspective: function
and phylogeny 149
Nicholas M. Grebe and Steven W. Gangestad
10 Organizational and activational effects of progesterone on social
behavior in female mammals 163
Alicia A. Walf and Cheryl A. Frye
11 The neuroendocrinological basis of human affiliation: how oxytocin
coordinates affiliation-related cognition and behavior via changing
underlying brain activity 193
Bastian Schiller and Markus Heinrichs
12 Oxytocin and human sociality: an interactionist perspective
on the “hormone of love” 205
Jonas P. Nitschke, Sonia A. Krol, and Jennifer A. Bartz
13 Affiliative or aggressive? The role of oxytocin in
antisocial behaviour through the lens of the social
salience hypothesis 224
Leehe Peled-Avron and Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory
viii
Contents
SECTION 4
Pair bonding, reproduction, and parenting 237
14 Functional roles of gonadal hormones in human pair bonding
and sexuality 239
James R. Roney
15 Organizational effects of hormones on sexual orientation 256
Kevin A. Rosenfield, Khytam Dawood, and David A. Puts
16 Hormones and close relationship processes: neuroendocrine
bases of partnering and parenting 281
Robin S. Edelstein and Kristi Chin
17 The many faces of human caregiving: perspective on flexibility
of the parental brain, hormonal systems, and parenting behaviors
and their long-term implications for child development 298
Eyal Abraham and Ruth Feldman
18 The social neuroendocrinology of pregnancy and breastfeeding
in mothers (and others) 318
Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook and Colin Holbrook
19 The neuroendocrinology of fatherhood 333
Patty X. Kuo and Lee T. Gettler
SECTION 5
Cognition and emotion 355
20 Sex hormonal effects on brain lateralization 357
Markus Hausmann and D. Michael Burt
21 Estrogens and androgens in the prefrontal cortex: relevance
for cognition and decision-making 371
Elizabeth Hampson
22 Sex hormones and economic decision making in the lab: a review
of the causal evidence 391
Anna Dreber and Magnus Johannesson
ix