Corrigendum: The Influence of Menstrual Cycle and Androstadienone on Female Stress Reactions: An fMRI Study.

[This corrects the article on p. 44 in vol. 10, PMID: 26909031.

The Influence of Menstrual Cycle and Androstadienone on Female Stress Reactions: An fMRI Study.

Communicating threats and stress via biological signaling is common in animals. In humans, androstadienone (ANDR), a synthetic male steroid, is a socially relevant chemosignal exhibited to increase positive mood and cortisol levels specifically in (periovulatory) females in positively arousing contexts. In a negative context, we expected that such effects of ANDR could amplify social evaluative threat depending on the stress sensitivity, which differs between menstrual cycle phases.