Article ; Online: Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Social Identification and Testosterone Reactivity to Vicarious Combat.
Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)
2021 Volume 32, Issue 2, Page(s) 509–527
Abstract: Testosterone (T) fluctuates in response to competitive social interactions, with the direction of change typically depending on factors such as contest outcome. Watching a competition may be sufficient to activate T among fans and others who are invested ...
| Abstract | Testosterone (T) fluctuates in response to competitive social interactions, with the direction of change typically depending on factors such as contest outcome. Watching a competition may be sufficient to activate T among fans and others who are invested in the outcome. This study explores the change in T associated with vicarious experiences of competition among combat sport athletes viewing a teammate win or lose and assesses how individual differences in social identification with one's team relates to these patterns of T reactivity. Twenty-six male combat athletes completed a social identity questionnaire on a neutral day. Later, salivary samples (assayed for T) were obtained before and after athletes viewed a video of a teammate engaged in a formal contest. T reactivity to viewing a teammate compete varied among participants in both the magnitude and direction of change, independent of contest outcome. Individual differences in cognitive centrality, a core feature of social identification, showed a strong positive relationship with T reactivity, particularly if their teammate won. Initial findings suggest that dominance-linked androgen responses associated with watching a teammate win a competition might depend on the belief that team membership is central to one's own identity. These exploratory results in a small sample of combat athletes should be interpreted with caution. Uncovering the role of social group dynamics in influencing T responses to competition is particularly important in light of the evolutionary history of coalitional combat in humans. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Competitive Behavior ; Humans ; Male ; Saliva ; Social Identification ; Sports ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Testosterone | |||||
| Chemical Substances | Testosterone (3XMK78S47O) | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2021-07-07 | |||||
| Publishing country | United States | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 1020326-6 | |||||
| ISSN | 1936-4776 ; 1045-6767 | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1936-4776 | |||||
| ISSN | 1045-6767 | |||||
| DOI | 10.1007/s12110-021-09407-7 | |||||
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