Social play soliciting by male and female juvenile rats: Effects of neonatal androgenization and sex of cagemates.
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Male and female juvenile rats were individually exposed to nonplayful juvenile social stimuli in a novel test of play-soliciting behavior to examine hormonal and experiential determinants of sex differences. In Experiment 1, neonatally androgenized females engaged in play soliciting at a level equal to that of male controls and greater than that of nonandrogenized female controls. In Experiment 2, males and females were reared in unisexual and bisexual groups in order to compare long-term sex-related social experience effects on juvenile play soliciting. Males exposed only to other young males engaged in greater play soliciting than males exposed to both sexes; females, in contrast, were unaffected by sex of cagemates. Within rearing conditions, however, males engaged in greater play soliciting than females. The combined results suggest that perinatal gonadal androgen exposure effects on social play are prepotent and contribute essentially to sex differences in the initiation of social play behavior.
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The sex difference in the frequency of play (females playing more than males) is contrary to that typically reported in many other studies.
“With regard to the sex difference in the frequency of play, this finding is contrary to that typically reported in many other studies (Pellis, 2002;Pellis et al., 1997;Thor & Holloway, 1986).”
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- Authors
- Thor, D. H., & Holloway, W. R.
- Venue
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Published
- 1986
- Volume
- 100
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 275-279
- ISSN
- 0735-7044 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0084
- OpenAlex
- W2008878048
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 0.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
- Keywords
- social play, young rats, neonatal androgenization, sex differences, social experience, gonadal hormones
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animals, Newborn, Female, Male, Play and Playthings, Sex Characteristics, Sex Factors, Social Behavior, Testosterone, Rats
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