Do women tend while men fight or flee? Differential emotive reactions of stressed men and women while viewing newborn infants

Highlights • We tested how stress modulates caretaking motivation in men and women. • Stress exposure lead to decreased caretaking motivation in men, but not in women. • Skin conductance level increased in stressed men when viewing newborn infants. • Men showed a quadratic relation between cortisol...

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Published in:Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017-01, Vol.75, p.213-221
Main Authors: Probst, Fabian, Meng-Hentschel, Juliane, Golle, Jessika, Stucki, Sylvia, Akyildiz-Kunz, Carola, Lobmaier, Janek S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Caretaking motivation
Cortisol
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Female
Galvanic Skin Response - physiology
Humans
Hydrocortisone - metabolism
Infant care
Infant Care - psychology
Infant, Newborn
Male
Motivation - physiology
Psychiatry
Sex differences
Sex Factors
Skin conductance
Stress response
Stress, Psychological - physiopathology
Young Adult
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Summary:Highlights • We tested how stress modulates caretaking motivation in men and women. • Stress exposure lead to decreased caretaking motivation in men, but not in women. • Skin conductance level increased in stressed men when viewing newborn infants. • Men showed a quadratic relation between cortisol changes and caretaking motivation. • Cuteness appreciation was not modulated by stress.
ISSN:0306-4530
1873-3360
DOI:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.11.005