Effects of androstadienone on dominance perception in males with low and high social anxiety

Social chemosignaling is an important means of communication for all mammals (Dulac and Torello, 2003; Brennan and Zufall, 2006). Such social chemosignaling is especially prominent in behaviors related to social hierarchy, territory and reproduction (Dulac and Torello, 2003; Wyatt, 2003; Brennan and Zufall, 2006). Social status, namely social dominance and social submissiveness, is known to be conveyed through chemosignals in rodents (Jones and Nowell, 1973; Novotny et al., 1990). Moreover, over the last decade increasing evidence suggests that humans also can communicate both trait-dominance (Havlicek et al., 2005; Sorokowska et al., 2012) and state-dominance (Adolph et al., 2010) via chemical compounds.

Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - May 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Banner Amir, S.G. Simone Shamay-Tsoory Source Type: research