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Responses to the Human Intruder Test are related to hair cortisol phenotype and sex in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
American journal of primatology - 1 Jan 2017
Hamel Amanda F, Lutz Corrine K, Coleman Kristine, Worlein Julie M, Peterson Emily J, Rosenberg Kendra L, Novak Melinda A, Meyer Jerrold S
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Measurement of cortisol in hair provides a chronic index of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity and has been applied to assessments of temperament (stable behavioral differences between individuals). However, the extent to which chronically high HPA axis activity relates to a correspondingly high degree of behavioral reactivity is as yet unknown. Therefore, the goal of the present experiment was to...
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