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Hormones and Personality

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Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

Synonyms

Hormones: sometimes also referred to by their more specific structural names, such as peptides or steroids; Personality: also referred to as individual differences, traits, disposition, temperament

Definitions

  • Hormones are molecules occurring naturally in the body that serve as chemical messengers, orchestrating biological and behavioral adaptation to the environment.

  • Personality refers to relatively stable between-person differences in the basic structure of human experience and behavior.

Introduction

This entry summarizes what is currently known about the relationships between stress and reproductive hormones and human personality. Hormones are naturally occurring signaling moleculesthat regulate physiology and behavior in animals. Hormones are excreted by one part of the body and exert their influence in other parts of the body by binding to receptors in target tissues, where they can exert either genomic actions (delayed effects on protein synthesis), non-genomic...

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