From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" 

Sounds like the kind of study people like to ignore when claiming
homosexuality isn't "natural".
gs

"Randall Parker"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1393ce897afa2ac398a3f6{at}news.barkto.com...
> Rich,
>
> The study was a meta-study that included research on other species. Are
> we supposed to believe that in the other species it is biological and in
> humans it is learned? Maybe females learn how to boost their oxytocin
> levels and they also learn how not to make testosterone too?
>
> http://www.ucnewswire.org/articles/2000/May/UCLA%20Researchers%20Identify
> %20Key.htm
>
> "We found that men often react to stress with a fight-or-flight
> response," Taylor said, "but women are more likely to manage
their stress
> with a tend-and-befriend response by nurturing their children or seeking
> social contact, especially with other women."
> The UCLA study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the
> Psychological Review of the American Psychological Association, based its
> findings on analysis of hundreds of biological and behavioral studies of
> response to stress by thousands of humans and animal subjects.
> "The tend-and-befriend method of coping with stress seems to be
> characteristic of females in many species," Taylor said.
> Just as the fight-or-flight response is based on biological changes that
> occur in response to stress, the UCLA researchers propose that the tend-
> and-befriend pattern may have a biological basis. In particular, the
> research team points to the hormone oxytocin as playing a large role in
> the tend-and-befriend response, in conjunction with sex hormones and the
> body's natural opioid system.
> "Oxytocin has been studied largely for its role in childbirth, but it is
> also secreted in both men and women as a response to stress," she said.
> "Animals and people with high levels of oxytocin are calmer, more
> relaxed, more social and less anxious. In several animal species,
> oxytocin leads to maternal behavior and to affiliation.
> "Men secrete oxytocin too, but the effects of oxytocin seem to be reduced
> by male hormones, so oxytocin may have reduced effects on men's
> physiology and behavior under stress. Oxytocin, along with other stress
> hormones, may play a key factor in reducing females' response to stress."
>
> In article , richhong{at}hawksci.com says...
> > You should know better than to post such drivel in support of your
> > allegation that the difference is biological.  How do you know whether
the
> > difference is merely learned behavior in a gender-stereotyped society?
> >

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