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Hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women
This study investigated whether men with a history of real‐life aggressive, dominant behavior show increases in testosterone and cortisol levels after brief social contact with women. Furthermore, we tested the prediction that such changes in hormones would be larger than those observed previously i...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9293448/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34605041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.21995 |
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author | van der Meij, Leander Pulopulos, Matias M. Hidalgo, Vanesa Almela, Mercedes Lila, Marisol Roney, James R. Salvador, Alicia |
author_facet | van der Meij, Leander Pulopulos, Matias M. Hidalgo, Vanesa Almela, Mercedes Lila, Marisol Roney, James R. Salvador, Alicia |
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description | This study investigated whether men with a history of real‐life aggressive, dominant behavior show increases in testosterone and cortisol levels after brief social contact with women. Furthermore, we tested the prediction that such changes in hormones would be larger than those observed previously in young male students. Sixty‐seven male participants convicted of intimate partner violence (IPV) either had brief social contact with a female confederate (experimental condition) or a male confederate (control condition). We also performed meta‐analyses to investigate whether IPV perpetrators' hormonal responses were larger than the typical responses of young male students in prior studies. All statistical analyses were preregistered. Change in testosterone did not differ across experimental conditions, and testosterone in the IPV perpetrators actually declined from baseline in the female confederate condition. Our meta‐analysis showed that this testosterone decrease was different from the testosterone increase typically observed in young male students. The cortisol levels of IPV perpetrators did not change in response to contact with women. This result was consistent with our meta‐analysis since young male students also did not experience a cortisol change in response to interactions with women. In sum, our findings provide no evidence that male IPV perpetrators exhibit larger hormone increases to brief interactions with women, although it is possible that the men in this sample did not perceive the social contact period as a courtship opportunity. These results suggest that hormone reactivity to social encounters may differ across subject populations and depend on how subjects perceive social situations within laboratory settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-92934482022-07-20 Hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women van der Meij, Leander Pulopulos, Matias M. Hidalgo, Vanesa Almela, Mercedes Lila, Marisol Roney, James R. Salvador, Alicia Aggress Behav Research Articles This study investigated whether men with a history of real‐life aggressive, dominant behavior show increases in testosterone and cortisol levels after brief social contact with women. Furthermore, we tested the prediction that such changes in hormones would be larger than those observed previously in young male students. Sixty‐seven male participants convicted of intimate partner violence (IPV) either had brief social contact with a female confederate (experimental condition) or a male confederate (control condition). We also performed meta‐analyses to investigate whether IPV perpetrators' hormonal responses were larger than the typical responses of young male students in prior studies. All statistical analyses were preregistered. Change in testosterone did not differ across experimental conditions, and testosterone in the IPV perpetrators actually declined from baseline in the female confederate condition. Our meta‐analysis showed that this testosterone decrease was different from the testosterone increase typically observed in young male students. The cortisol levels of IPV perpetrators did not change in response to contact with women. This result was consistent with our meta‐analysis since young male students also did not experience a cortisol change in response to interactions with women. In sum, our findings provide no evidence that male IPV perpetrators exhibit larger hormone increases to brief interactions with women, although it is possible that the men in this sample did not perceive the social contact period as a courtship opportunity. These results suggest that hormone reactivity to social encounters may differ across subject populations and depend on how subjects perceive social situations within laboratory settings. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-04 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9293448/ /pubmed/34605041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.21995 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Aggressive Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles van der Meij, Leander Pulopulos, Matias M. Hidalgo, Vanesa Almela, Mercedes Lila, Marisol Roney, James R. Salvador, Alicia Hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women |
title | Hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women |
title_full | Hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women |
title_fullStr | Hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women |
title_full_unstemmed | Hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women |
title_short | Hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women |
title_sort | hormonal changes of intimate partner violence perpetrators in response to brief social contact with women |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9293448/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34605041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.21995 |
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