Endocrinology of Social Relationships

510 Pages·2009·5.838 MB·English

by  Peter T. Ellison (editor), Peter B. Gray (editor)

Endocrinology of Social Relationships

E N D O C R I N O L O G Y O F
S O C I A L R E L AT I O N S H I P S
Edited by
PETER T. ELLISON
PETER B. GRAY
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England
Copyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Endocrinology of social relationships / edited by Peter T. Ellison and Peter B. Gray.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-674-03117-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-674-06399-0 (pbk.)
1. Animal behavior—Endocrine aspects. 2. Human behavior—Endocrine aspects.
3. Psychoneuroendocrinology. I. Ellison, Peter Thorpe. II. Gray, Peter B., 1972-
[DNLM: 1. Behavioral Research—methods. 2. Neuroendocrinology—methods.
3. Behavior—physiology. 4. Hormones—physiology. 5. Social Behavior.
WL 105 E56 2009]
QP356.45.E53 2009
612.4—dc22 2008029736
Contents
Introduction 1
Peter B. Gray and Peter T. Ellison
PART ONE Theoretical and Empirical Context
1 Evolution and Ecological Diversity in Animal Mating
and Parenting Systems 13
Phyllis C. Lee
2 Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying
Social Relationships 32
Kim Wallen and Janice Hassett
3 Social Relationships and Reproductive Ecology 54
Peter T. Ellison
4 Hormone-Behavior Interrelationships in a
Changing Environment 74
John C. Wingfield
5 The Endocrinology of the Human Adaptive Complex 95
Jane B. Lancaster and Hillard S. Kaplan
VI CONTENTS
PART TWO Social Relationships among Nonhuman Animals
6 The Endocrinology of Social Relationships in Rodents
C. Sue Carter, Ericka Boone, Angela J. Grippo,
Michael Ruscio, and Karen L. Bales 121
7 The Endocrinology of Family Relationships
in Biparental Monkeys 138
Toni E. Ziegler and Charles T. Snowdon
8 Hormonal and Neurochemical Influences on
Aggression in Group-Living Monkeys 159
Lynn A. Fairbanks
9 The Endocrinology of Intersexual Relationships
in the Apes 196
Melissa Emery Thompson
PART THREE Social Relationships among Humans
10 Human Sex Differences in Social Relationships:
Organizational and Activational Effects of Androgens 225
Matthew H. McIntyre and Carole K. Hooven
11 The Role of Sex Hormones in the Initiation of
Human Mating Relationships 246
James R. Roney
12 Human Male Testosterone, Pair-Bonding,
and Fatherhood 270
Peter B. Gray and Benjamin C. Campbell
13 Neurobiology of Human Maternal Care 294
Alison S. Fleming and Andrea Gonzalez
14 Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Human Social Behavior 319
Roxanne Sanchez, Jeffrey C. Parkin, Jennie Y. Chen, and Peter B. Gray
15 Androgens and Diversity in Adult Human Partnering 340
Sari M. van Anders
CONTENTS VII
16 Early Life Influences on the Ontogeny of
the Neuroendocrine Stress Response in the Human Child 364
Pablo Nepomnaschy and Mark Flinn
References 385
Contributors 491
Index 493

Endocrinology of Social Relationships