Affiliative Response to Stress: an empirical investigation of Tend-and-Befriend model
Presentation / Conference
Karastoyanova, K. V., & Sharp, M. A. (2018, July)
Affiliative Response to Stress: an empirical investigation of Tend-and-Befriend model. Poster presented at 30th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amsterdam
Stress research in humans has been considered predominantly within the conceptual framework of Cannon’s Fight-or-Flight model. However, observations that it was primarily test...
Female Gaze Behaviour, Status and the Menstrual Cycle: An Exploratory Study
Journal Article
Sharp, M. A., & Hamilton, G. E. (2017)
Female Gaze Behaviour, Status and the Menstrual Cycle: An Exploratory Study. Human Ethology, 32(1), 29-41. https://doi.org/10.22330/heb/321/029-041
Whilst not explaining all social behaviour and organisation, dominance is nevertheless an important dimension of human social interaction. It has been hypothesized that gaze b...
Testosterone reactivity and status: Exploring sex differences in response to physical competition
Presentation / Conference
Sharp, M., & E. A. S. Al-Dujiali, . E. (2016, August)
Testosterone reactivity and status: Exploring sex differences in response to physical competition. Poster presented at XXIII International Society for Human Ethology Congress, Stirling, Scotland
Female salivary testosterone: the influence of circadian dynamics on sampling strategies in bio-behavioural research
Presentation / Conference
Sharp, M. (2015, September)
Female salivary testosterone: the influence of circadian dynamics on sampling strategies in bio-behavioural research. Poster presented at Society for the Study of Human Biology (SSHB), Lisbon, Portugal
Women's biology has been used as a powerful justification for social inequality (Fausto-Sterling, 1992). However, evolutionary arguments suggesting females are unlikely to be ...
Sex-Role Orientation in Men Is Related to Salivary Testosterone Levels
Journal Article
Smith, M. J. L., Deady, D. K., Sharp, M. A., & Al-Dujaili, E. A. S. (2013)
Sex-Role Orientation in Men Is Related to Salivary Testosterone Levels. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 3(7), 518-521. https://doi.org/10.4236/jbbs.2013.37054
Previous research has implicated the involvement of androgens in sex-role orientation in males, from studies of 2 nd to 4 th digit ratio (a purported marker of prenatal testos...
Female Salivary Testosterone: Measurement, Challenges and Applications
Book Chapter
Al-DujailI, E., & Sharp, M. (2012)
Female Salivary Testosterone: Measurement, Challenges and Applications. In S. Ostojic (Ed.), Steroids - From Physiology to Clinical Medicine. InTech. https://doi.org/10.5772/53648
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Student Experience of Collaborative Writing as a Facsimile of the Scientific Peer Review Process
Presentation / Conference
Sharp, M. A., Mitchell, L. A., & Karastoyanova, K. V. (2012, April)
Student Experience of Collaborative Writing as a Facsimile of the Scientific Peer Review Process. Presented at 12th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow
Cues to sex- and stress-hormones in the human male face: Functions of glucocorticoids in the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis
Journal Article
Moore, F., Al Dujaili, E., Cornwell, R., Smith, M. L., Lawson, J., Sharp, M., & Perrett, D. (2011)
Cues to sex- and stress-hormones in the human male face: Functions of glucocorticoids in the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis. Hormones and Behavior, 60(3), 269-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.05.010
The stress-linked version of the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis has been proposed to account for inconsistencies in relationships between testosterone and immune respons...
Evidence for the stress-linked immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in human male faces
Journal Article
Moore, F. R., Cornwell, R. E., Law Smith, M. J., Al Dujaili, E. A. S., Sharp, M., & Perrett, D. I. (2011)
Evidence for the stress-linked immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in human male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1706), 774-780. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1678
The stress-linked immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (SL-ICHH) of sexual selection incorporates a role of the stress hormone corticosterone (C; cortisol in humans) in relati...
Raised salivary testosterone in women is associated with increased attraction to masculine faces
Journal Article
Welling, L., Jones, B., DeBruine, L., Conway, C., Law Smith, M., Little, A., …Al-Dujaili, E. (2007)
Raised salivary testosterone in women is associated with increased attraction to masculine faces. Hormones and Behavior, 52(2), 156-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.01.010
Women's preferences for masculinity in men's faces, voices and behavioral displays change during the menstrual cycle and are strongest around ovulation. While previous finding...