What men do when a baby cries : increasing testosterone may lead to less nurturant care but more environmental vigilance

• Main Authors: Setoh, Peipei, Esposito, Gianluca
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Infant Crying; Testosterone
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83545; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49778
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Infants’ crying modulates parental behaviors, which in turn, ideally, lead to calming the infant. The mutually beneficial reciprocity between infants’ and parents’ behaviors is conserved across mammalian species. Although some studies highlight similarities in responses to infant cries across gender...