From: Randall Parker 

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 <39294b27{at}w3.nls.net>, 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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