A longitudinal analysis of women's salivary testosterone and intrasexual competitiveness
Hahn, Amanda C. and Fisher, Claire I. and Cobey, Kelly D. and DeBruine, Lisa M. and Jones, Benedict C. (2016) A longitudinal analysis of women's salivary testosterone and intrasexual competitiveness. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 64. pp. 117-122. ISSN 1873-3360 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.11.014)
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Abstract
Research on within-subject changes in women's intrasexual competitiveness has generally focused on possible relationships between women's intrasexual competitiveness and estimates of their fertility. While this approach is useful for testing hypotheses about the adaptive function of changes in women's intrasexual competitiveness, it offers little insight into the proximate mechanisms through which such changes might occur. To investigate this issue, we carried out a longitudinal study of the hormonal correlates of changes in intrasexual competitiveness in a large sample of heterosexual women (N=136). Each woman provided saliva samples and completed an intrasexual competitiveness questionnaire in five weekly test sessions. Multilevel modeling of these data revealed a significant, positive within-subject effect of testosterone on intrasexual competitiveness, indicating that women reported greater intrasexual competitiveness when testosterone was high. By contrast, there were no significant effects of estradiol, progesterone, estradiol-to-progesterone ratio, or cortisol and no significant effects of any hormones on reported relationship jealousy. This is the first study to demonstrate correlated changes in measured testosterone levels and women's reported intrasexual competitiveness, implicating testosterone in the regulation of women's intrasexual competitiveness.
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Hahn, Amanda C., Fisher, Claire I., Cobey, Kelly D., DeBruine, Lisa M. and Jones, Benedict C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-0220;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 72786 Dates: DateEvent1 February 2016Published16 November 2015AcceptedSubjects: Medicine
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > PsychologyDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Psychological Sciences and Health > Psychology Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 18 Jun 2020 08:43 Last modified: 05 Sep 2024 01:06 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72786