Testosterone dynamics during encounter: role of emotional factors

Chichinadze, Konstantin; Lazarashvili, Ann; Chichinadze, Nodar; Gachechiladze, Ledi

doi:10.1007/s00359-012-0726-1

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“…As previously reported (Allison et al, 2012;Meyer et al, 2015), participants in the current study reported positive emotions and showed ANS activation consistent with experiencing an enjoyable rush during skydiving. The current data also show that this pleasurable activity was associated with increased testosterone reactivity consistent with suggestions that testosterone release is pleasurable (Chichinadze, Lazarashvili, Chichinadze, & Gachechiladze, 2012) and observations of testosterone increases in contexts that are exciting (e.g., sex; Escasa, Casey, & Gray, 2011;Hirschenhauser, Frigerio, Grammer, & Magnusson, 2002). Physical, visceral sensations play an important role in decision-making (Paulus, 2007).…”

Section: Sensation Seeking Stress Biomarkers and Testosteronesupporting

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Putting the flight in “fight-or-flight”: Testosterone reactivity to skydiving is modulated by autonomic activation

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Lee

Phan

et al. 2019

Biological Psychology

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Sensation-seeking (SS) involves the tendency to pursue exciting activities, potentially including risky behaviors (e.g., substance use, risky sexual behavior). Testosterone is associated with cortisol, SS, and autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning. Testosterone reactivity/recovery during sky-diving and its relationship to cortisol response, ANS response and SS were examined. Forty-four participants provided reactive saliva samples and autonomic activity data before, during and after sky-diving and as well as basal day saliva samples. Testosterone reactivity/recovery to skydiving was significantly greater than basal day measurements. Testosterone re-sponsivity to skydiving was predicted by increased cortisol, increased sympathetic activity (heart rate) and reduced parasympathetic activity (RMSSD). Independent of physiological effects, increased SS predicted testosterone responsivity to skydiving. These data suggest that testosterone reactivity, and its relationship to ANS responsivity, may be associated with pleasurable responses to risky/ intense situations. These data may be useful in developing novel intervention strategies for risky behaviors.

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Section: Sensation Seeking Stress Biomarkers and Testosteronesupporting

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Putting the flight in “fight-or-flight”: Testosterone reactivity to skydiving is modulated by autonomic activation

White

Lee

Phan

et al. 2019

Biological Psychology

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“…Pressing the spin button on a slot machine may not be sufficient to provoke these experiences. As mentioned previously, McCaul, Gladue, and Joppa (1992) Chichinadze, Lazarashvili, Chichinadze, & Gachechiladze, 2012;Salvador & Costa, 2009) following the slot machine session was naturally higher in winners than losers, and indirectly mediated a decrease in testosterone. Because this mediational effect of Positive Affect was specific to winners, these results suggest that winners experienced a reverse winner-loser effect.…”

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Slot machine gambling and testosterone: Evidence for a “winner–loser” effect?

Ferrari

Chan²,

Brown³

et al. 2018

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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The “winner–loser effect” refers to a phenomenon in testosterone research where the outcome of a social competition induces increases (wins) and/or decreases (losses) in testosterone levels. Here, we sought to test to what extent changes in testosterone occur in response to gambling behavior. More specifically, we hypothesized that the winner–loser effect would extend to slot machine gambling as a solitary (noncompetitive) gambling activity in players who “anthropomorphized” the slot machine, thus treating the machine as a human opponent. Male participants (n = 113) were recruited into a quasi-experimental design involving 15 min of authentic slot machine gambling, incentivized by a $10 cash bonus for participants who finished in profit. In addition to salivary measures of testosterone, salivary cortisol and self-reported anthropomorphization of the slot machine were tested as potential moderators. Contrary to predictions, winning and losing slot machine sessions did not exert significant differential effects on testosterone, and this pattern was not moderated by cortisol levels or slot machine anthropomorphization. Exploratory analyses tested relationships between subjective gambling experiences in the sessions and testosterone change. Higher positive affect and flow predicted greater testosterone declines from pre- to postgambling. The testosterone results add to a growing literature on the boundary conditions of the winner–loser effect and inform future studies on testosterone reactivity in relation to gambling and disordered gambling. The tendency to anthropomorphize slot machines is a neglected cognitive distortion in gambling that merits further study.

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“…For example following a change in social status like winning a Tetris tournament, basal HPG-axis production of testosterone predicts cortisol reactivity for both sexes (Mehta et al, 2008) and viceversa among men (Zilioli and Watson, 2012). Moreover, enhanced testosterone production in the context of competition can amplify assertiveness and aggression when social status is threatened (Chichinadze et al, 2012a;Chichinadze et al, 2012b). As this is highly likely in the context of the TSST, studying repeated measurement of HPG-axis and HPA-axis products represents an exciting lens from which to further understand within-sex variations in stress physiology that go beyond binary sex differences.…”

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Sex hormones adjust “sex-specific” reactive and diurnal cortisol profiles

Juster

Raymond

Desrochers

et al. 2016

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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Sex differences in stress hormone functions are presumed to depend on sex hormones. And yet, surprisingly few psychoneuroendocrine studies actually assess within-sex variations of testosterone, estradiol, and progesterone when investigating sex-specific activities of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. In this methodological study of 204 healthy adults (60 men), we assessed whether cortisol profiles would differ between the sexes when unadjusted or adjusted for basal sex hormones among both sexes. Reactive cortisol was sampled using 6 saliva samples measured every 10-min as part of the Trier Social Stress Test that generally activates cortisol among men more than women. Diurnal cortisol was sampled over two days at (1) awakening, (2) 30-min thereafter, (3) 1400 h, (4) 1600 h, and (5) bedtime. Sex hormones were collected at baseline before the psychosocial stressor and on two occasions during diurnal cortisol assessment. Repeated-measures analysis of covariance controlled for key covariates in analyses unadjusted or adjusted for sex hormones. Results revealed that men had higher reactive cortisol than women in unadjusted analysis, but this sex difference was attenuated when adjusting for sex hormones. While diurnal cortisol showed no sex differences in unadjusted models, adjusting for sex hormones revealed that women have higher morning cortisol. Correlations using area under the curve formulae revealed intriguing sex-specific associations with progesterone in men and testosterone in women that we propose have implications for social and affective neuroscience. In summary, our results reveal that adjusting for sex hormones alters "sex-specific" reactive and diurnal cortisol profiles.

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Testosterone dynamics during encounter: role of emotional factors

Cited by 21 publications

References 117 publications

Putting the flight in “fight-or-flight”: Testosterone reactivity to skydiving is modulated by autonomic activation

Putting the flight in “fight-or-flight”: Testosterone reactivity to skydiving is modulated by autonomic activation

Slot machine gambling and testosterone: Evidence for a “winner–loser” effect?

Sex hormones adjust “sex-specific” reactive and diurnal cortisol profiles

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