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  • Psychology
  • Evolutionary Biology

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  • Understanding brain responses to social aggression signals is crucial for social interaction.
  • Sexual orientation's influence on processing these signals remains under-explored.
  • Previous research suggests evolutionary links between sexual orientation and social traits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate brain responses to social aggression cues (odor and facial expressions) in gay and heterosexual men and women.
  • To determine if sexual orientation modulates the processing of aggression signals.
  • To explore the neural correlates of aggression signal processing in relation to sexual orientation.

Main Methods:

  • Collected axillary sweat from men and women during aggression and control conditions.
  • Presented sweat samples and facial expressions (angry, neutral) to gay and heterosexual men and women.
  • Recorded electroencephalography (EEG) to analyze chemosensory event-related potentials (CSERPs) and event-related potentials (ERPs), and used low-resolution electromagnetic tomography to calculate neuronal sources.

Main Results:

  • Gay men showed enhanced brain responses (larger P3-1 amplitudes) to male aggression sweat compared to heterosexual men, linked to right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) activation.
  • Gay men exhibited longer N170 latencies to angry male faces versus female faces, unlike heterosexual men.
  • No significant effects of sexual orientation were observed in women's processing of aggression sweat or anger expressions.

Conclusions:

  • Gay men demonstrate preferential processing of chemosensory aggression signals, indicating fine-tuned socioemotional sensitivity and emotion regulation via IFG activation.
  • Gay men also process the relative relevance of visual aggression signals, as shown by N170 latency differences.
  • Findings support evolutionary theories linking same-sex attraction with traits facilitating social integration.