Does Toxoplasma infection increase sexual masochism and submissiveness? Yes and no

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10371287" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10371287 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00023752:_____/17:43919346

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889" target="_blank" >10.1080/19420889</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Does Toxoplasma infection increase sexual masochism and submissiveness? Yes and no

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The parasite Toxoplasma needs to get from its intermediate hosts, e.g. rodents, to its de fi nitive hosts, cats, by predation. To increase the probability of this occurrence, Toxoplasma manipulates the behavior of its hosts, for example, by the demethylation of promoters of certain genes in the host &apos; s amygdala. After this modi fi cation, the stimuli that normally activate fear-related circuits, e.g., the smell of a cat in mice, or smell of leopards in chimpanzees, start to additionally co-activate sexual arousal-related circuits in the infected animals. In humans, the increased attraction to masochistic sexual practices was recently observed in a study performed on 36,564 subjects. Here I show that lower rather than higher attraction to sexual masochism and submissiveness among infected subjects is detected if simple univariate tests instead of multivariate tests are applied to the same data. I show and discuss that when analyzing multiple effects of complex stimuli on complex biological systems we need to use multivariate techniques and very large data sets. We must also accept the fact that any single factor usually explains only a small fraction of variability in the focal variable.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Does Toxoplasma infection increase sexual masochism and submissiveness? Yes and no

Popis výsledku anglicky

The parasite Toxoplasma needs to get from its intermediate hosts, e.g. rodents, to its de fi nitive hosts, cats, by predation. To increase the probability of this occurrence, Toxoplasma manipulates the behavior of its hosts, for example, by the demethylation of promoters of certain genes in the host &apos; s amygdala. After this modi fi cation, the stimuli that normally activate fear-related circuits, e.g., the smell of a cat in mice, or smell of leopards in chimpanzees, start to additionally co-activate sexual arousal-related circuits in the infected animals. In humans, the increased attraction to masochistic sexual practices was recently observed in a study performed on 36,564 subjects. Here I show that lower rather than higher attraction to sexual masochism and submissiveness among infected subjects is detected if simple univariate tests instead of multivariate tests are applied to the same data. I show and discuss that when analyzing multiple effects of complex stimuli on complex biological systems we need to use multivariate techniques and very large data sets. We must also accept the fact that any single factor usually explains only a small fraction of variability in the focal variable.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-20958S" target="_blank" >GA16-20958S: Role chovu koček a psů a některých s nimi asociovaných nákaz při vzniku klinických a subklinických forem deprese, OCD, fobií a psychóz</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

COMMUNICATIVE &amp; INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY

ISSN

1942-0889

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2017

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

10

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

4

Strana od-do

1-4

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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