{"id":561,"date":"2019-12-26T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/?p=561"},"modified":"2019-12-26T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T21:07:13","slug":"partner-cuddling-testosterone-plays-a-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/2019\/12\/26\/partner-cuddling-testosterone-plays-a-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Partner cuddling: testosterone plays a role"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sari van Anders’ research in social neuroendocrinology challenges widely-held assumptions about the roles of so-called sex hormones.\u00a0 For instance, a common misunderstanding is that levels of sex steroids are sexually dimorphic.\u00a0 In fact, mean levels of estradiol and progesteroneare similar in women and men (van Anders 2010).\u00a0 As for testosterone, “A lifetime of gender socialization could contribute to “sex differences in testosterone” (van Anders et al. 2015)<\/p>\n

Theoretically her work uses “innovative paradigms, models, and theories” to explore sexual diversity both in an evolutionary context and with respect to social construction.\u00a0 For instance, using partner cuddling as a test case, she illustrated the usefulness of looking at both sex hormones and peptide hormones together in exploring the mechanisms by which pair bonds are made.\u00a0 Her theories provide a comparative basis for examining mechanisms behind social behavior\u00a0 across, species, context, and gender (van Anders et al. 2011).<\/p>\n

A co-authored 2019 paper examines the future of sex and gender in psychology by exploring 5 sets of empirical data, from neuroanatomy to development, that undermine a gender-binary framework (Hyde et al. 2019).<\/p>\n

van Anders research lab at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario: https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/psychology\/people\/faculty\/sari-van-anders<\/p>\n

Hyde, J.S., R. S. Bigler, D. Joel., C.C. Tate, and S.M. van Anders.\u00a0 2019.\u00a0 The future of sex and gender in psychology.\u00a0 American Psychologist 74(2):171-194.<\/p>\n

van Anders, S.M., J. Steiger and K. L. Goldey.\u00a0 2015.\u00a0 Effects of gendered behavior on testosterone in women and men.\u00a0 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(45):13805-13810.<\/p>\n

van Anders, S.M. K. L. Goldey, and P.X. Kuo.\u00a0 2011.\u00a0 The steroid\/peptide theory of social bonds: integrating testosteron and peptide responses for classifying social behavioral contexts.<\/p>\n

van Anders, S. M., L. D. Hamilton, N. Schmidt, and N.V. Watson.\u00a0 2007.\u00a0 Associations between testosterone secretion and sexual activity in women.\u00a0 Hormones and Behavior 51:477-482.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sari van Anders’ research in social neuroendocrinology challenges widely-held assumptions about the roles of so-called sex hormones.\u00a0 For instance, a common misunderstanding is that levels of sex steroids are sexually dimorphic.\u00a0 In fact, mean levels of estradiol and progesteroneare similar in women and men (van Anders 2010).\u00a0 As for testosterone, “A lifetime of gender socialization… Read More Partner cuddling: testosterone plays a role<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}