The Endocrinology of Social Success

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Susman et al (1985) found that high-for-age sex hormone levels were linked to poor psychosocial outcomes for both adolescent girls and boys. Most studies of hormone effects on social interactions focus on this age group. Kershbaum et al (2006) compared saliva-measured testosterone levels in a group of 42 adolescents, and asked them to fill out

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[drinkywinky]

Question:
Are these studies looking at a number of different hormones and seeing that the sex hormones have the most effect, or are they looking at the sex hormones only/mainly?

Feel free to just tell me to RTFS

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Well, I specifically search for sex hormone related studies, but I remember one of these looked at cortisol as well, although I seem to remember from a previous post that cortisol tends to be present in males more.

Now I have to go look....

Okay, so Cashdan looked at cortisol, but she was looking only at women. And in November I looked at how estrogen may affect cortisol receptors.

[differenceblog]

And here's an interesting page about hormones to look at...