Short description:

An authoritative reference overviewing the current scholarship in social neuroendocrinology, considering the relationships between hormones, the brain, and social behavior.

Long description:

The Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology is an authoritative reference work providing a balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the rapidly developing field of social neuroendocrinology. Considering the relationships between hormones, the brain, and social behavior, this collection brings together groundbreaking research in the field for the first time.

Featuring 39 chapters written by leading researchers, the handbook offers impressive breadth of coverage. It begins with an overview of the history of social neuroendocrinology before discussing its methodological foundations and challenges. Other topics covered include state-of-the-art research on dominance and aggression; social affiliation; reproduction and pair bonding (e.g., sexual behavior, sexual orientation, romantic relationships); pregnancy and parenting; stress and emotion; cognition and decision making; social development; and mental and physical health. The handbook adopts a lifespan approach to the study of social neuroendocrinology throughout, covering the role that hormones play during gestation, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. It also illustrates the evolutionary forces that have shaped hormone-behavior associations across species, including research on humans, non-human primates, birds, and rodents.

The handbook will serve as an authoritative reference work for researchers, students, and others intrigued by this topic, while also inspiring new lines of research on interactions among hormones, brain, and behavior in social contexts.

"Social neuroendocrinology is a rapidly growing scientific discipline that has revolutionized our understanding of the biological bases of all social processes. The Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology offers the most comprehensive and most authoritative review of this field of research to date. A must-read for all behavioral scientists." - Dario Maestripieri, The University of Chicago, USA

Table of Contents:

List of contributors

Introduction

1 History of social neuroendocrinology in humans

2 Hormone measurement in social neuroendocrinology : a comparison of immunoassay and mass

spectrometry methods

3 Reproducibility in social neuroendocrinology : past, present, and future

4 Leveraging seasonality in male songbirds to better understand the neuroendocrine regulation of vertebrate aggression

Douglas W . Wacker

5 Behavioral and neuroendocrine plasticity in the form of winner and loser effects

6 The endocrinology of dominance relations in non-human primates

7 The dual-hormone approach to dominance and status-seeking

8 Social neuroendocrinology of human aggression : progress and future directions

9 Social endocrinology in evolutionary perspective : function and phylogeny

10 Organizational and activational effects of progesterone on social behavior in female mammals

11 The neuroendocrinological basis of human affi liation : how oxytocin coordinates affiliation-related cognition and behavior via changing underlying brain activity

12 Oxytocin and human sociality: an interactionist perspective on the ?hormone of love?

13 Affi liative or aggressive? The role of oxytocin in antisocial behaviour through the lens of the social salience hypothesis

Leehe Peled-Avron and Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory

14 Functional roles of gonadal hormones in human pair bonding and sexuality

15 Organizational effects of hormones on sexual orientation

16 Hormones and close relationship processes: neuroendocrine bases of partnering and parenting

17 The many faces of human caregiving : perspective on flexibility of the parental brain, hormonal systems, and parenting behaviors and their long-term implications for child development

18 The social neuroendocrinology of pregnancy and breastfeeding in mothers (and others)

19 The neuroendocrinology of fatherhood

20 Sex hormonal effects on brain lateralization

21 Estrogens and androgens in the prefrontal cortex : relevance for cognition and decision-making

22 Sex hormones and economic decision making in the lab: a review of the causal evidence

Anna Dreber and Magnus Johannesson

23 Emotional processing and sex hormones

24 Hormonal modulation of reinforcement learning and reward-related processes ? a role for 17ß-estradiol, progesterone and testosterone

25 The impact of psychosocial stress on cognition

26 Intra- and interindividual differences in cortisol stress responses

27 Stress and social development in adolescence in a rodent model

28 Oxytocin and vasopressin systems in the development of social behavior

29 The social neuroendocrinology and development of executive functions

30 Sensitive periods of development and the organizing actions of gonadal steroid hormones on the adolescent brain

31 The social biopsychology of implicit motive development

32 Interventions, stress during development, and psychosocial adjustment

33 Developmental trajectories of HPA?HPG dual-axes coupling: implications for social neuroendocrinology

Ellen Zakreski, Andrew Richard Dismukes, Andrea Tountas, Jenny Mai Phan, Shannin Nicole Moody, and Elizabeth Ann Shirtcliff

34 Neuroendocrinological aspects of social anxiety and aggression-related disorders

35 The social neuroendocrinology of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder

36 Attachment and depression: is oxytocin the shared link?

37 Sexual dimorphism in drug addiction: an influence of sex hormones

38 Neuroendocrine?immune interactions in health and disease

39 The social neuroendocrinology of athletic competition