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The Interaction of Hormones, Behavior, and Social Context in Nonhuman Primates

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Hormones and Aggressive Behavior

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Hormones are often regarded as one independent variable responsible for the behavior (the dependent variable) of an individual. Hormones are seen as the physiological mechanism underlying behavior and are treated as a “cause” of certain behavioral patterns—“behavioral patterns,” because hormonal levels are not viewed as stimuli that release specific fixed action patterns but as the regulators of motivational states that increase or decrease the probabilities of specific classes of response to environmental stimuli.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA

    Irwin S. Bernstein

  2. Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322, USA

    Irwin S. Bernstein & Thomas P. Gordon

  3. University of Texas Medical School Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, 77550, USA

    Robert M. Rose

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Bernstein, I.S., Gordon, T.P., Rose, R.M. (1983). The Interaction of Hormones, Behavior, and Social Context in Nonhuman Primates. In: Svare, B.B. (eds) Hormones and Aggressive Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3521-4_20

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