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The Gettler et al. article is an example of more recent scholarship in this area that complicates these traditional ideas and suggests that human males may be more "wired" to care for children than we previously thought.
Please read Gettler et al.Preview the document and respond to the following questions:
1.When they talk about “T,” what are they referring to?
2.Is this study correlational or experimental? Why?
3.Why is this considered a longitudinal study?
4.Why was it important the study be longitudinal, not cross-sectional?
5.How many men are in the sample?
6.In what country did this study take place?
7,The authors used data from a health survey and also went “into the field” and collected testosterone samples from men who had participated in the health survey. What was the survey called?
8.The authors hypothesized that men with higher T at the beginning of the study would be more likely to “partner.” Why did they think this might be the case?
9.Did they find support for this hypothesis?
10.The authors also hypothesized that men who became fathers would see a decrease in their T after the birth of their babies. Why did they think this might be the case?
11.Did they find support for this hypothesis?
12.Finally, the authors hypothesized that men who spent more time caring for their children would see an even steeper decline in T. Why did they think this might be the case?
13.Did they find support for this hypothesis?
- Finally, do the results of this study surprise you? Why or why not?