No evidence that hormonal contraceptive use or circulating sex steroids predict complex emotion recognition.

ABSTRACT: Relatively little is known about the effects of endogenous and exogenous steroid hormones on ecologically relevant behavioral and cognitive phenotypes in women, such as emotion recognition, despite the widespread use of steroid hormone-altering hormonal contraceptives (HCs). Though some previous studies have examined the effect of HC use, estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone on emotion recognition in women, they have been limited by cross-sectional designs, small sample sizes (total n < 100), and compromised statistical power to detect significant effects. Using data from two test sessions in a large sample of naturally cycling women (NC; n = 192) and women on HCs (n = 203), we found no group differences in emotion recognition; further, the lack of group differences in emotion recogni

SUBMITTER: Shirazi TN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8496674 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature