• DOI:10.1006/hbeh.2002.1814
Corpus ID: 14358049

Prenatal Stress and Gender Role Behavior in Girls and Boys: A Longitudinal, Population Study

@article{Hines2002PrenatalSA,
  title={Prenatal Stress and Gender Role Behavior in Girls and Boys: A Longitudinal, Population Study},
  author={M. Hines and Katie J. Johnston and S. Golombok and J. Rust and Alspac Study Team},
  journal={Hormones and Behavior},
  year={2002},
  volume={42},
  pages={126-134}
}

M. Hines, Katie J. Johnston, +2 authors Alspac Study Team

Published 2002

Psychology, Medicine

Hormones and Behavior

Prenatal stress influences neural and behavioral sexual differentiation in rodents. Male offspring of stressed pregnancies show reduced masculine-typical characteristics and increased feminine-typical characteristics, whereas female offspring show the opposite pattern, reduced feminine-typical and increased masculine-typical characteristics. These outcomes resemble those seen following manipulations of gonadal hormones and are thought to occur because stress influences these hormones during… CONTINUE READING

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