Open Peer Commentary Mazur & Booth: Testosterone and dominance
Of mice and men: Androgen dynamics in dominance and reproduction
Denys deCatanzaro a1andEmily Spironello a1 a1 Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
decatanz@mcmaster.ca
Abstract
In the animal literature, the concept of dominance usually
links status in intermale encounters with differential reproductive
success. Mazur & Booth effectively review the human literature
correlating testosterone with intermale competition, but more profound
questions relating this to male–female dynamics have yet to be
addressed in research with humans.
