Together, our results indicate that T can facilitate and inhibit prosocial behaviors depending on social context, that it can influence prosocial responses across rapid and prolonged time scales, and that it affects oxytocin signaling mechanisms that could mediate its context-dependent behavioral influences.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:17:43 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40861812 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Neuroanatomically, T rapidly increased hypothalamic oxytocin, but not vasopressin, cellular responses during interactions with a partner. Thus, T surges can rapidly match behavior to current social context, as well as prime animals for positive social interactions in the future. T also had persistent effects on prosocial behavior males in which T initially increased prosocial responses towards a partner continued to exhibit elevated prosocial responses towards an intruder male days later until a second T injection rapidly eliminated those responses. T increased and decreased prosocial responses in the same individuals towards a pairbond partner and an intruder, respectively, both within 30 minutes, but did not affect aggression. We examined testosterone’s (T) influence on prosocial and aggressive responses in a positively-valenced social context (interacting with a pairbond partner) and a negatively-valenced context (interacting with an intruder) in socially monogamous Mongolian gerbils.

Although androgens are widely studied in the context of aggression, androgenic influences on prosocial behaviors have been less explored.

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