effects-of-gendered-behavior-on_anders-sari-m-van-et-al.md

title	authors	external_url	source_url	drive_links	course	tags	year	month	journal	volume	number	pages	openalexid
Effects of Gendered Behavior on Testosterone in Women and Men	Sari M. van Anders Jeffrey Steiger Katherine L. Goldey	https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/45/13805.full.pdf	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509591112	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fdcCSMmQT653017b0yGd0rMXMfaMDoXG/view?usp=drivesdk	gender	medicine	2015	oct	pnas	112	45	13805--13810	W1831614167

Men’s higher testosterone is typically seen as an innate “sex” difference. However, our experiment demonstrates that gender-related social factors also matter, even for biological measures. Gender socialization may affect testosterone by encouraging men but not women toward behaviors that increase testosterone. This shows that research on human sex biology needs to account for gender socialization and that nurture, as well as nature, is salient to hormone physiology. Our paper provides a demonstration of a novel gender→testosterone pathway, opening up new avenues for studying gender biology.