Professor Gillian Bentley's Outputs (2)

Beyond the Sex Doll: Post-Human Companionship and the Rise of the ‘Allodoll’ (2018)
Journal Article
Langcaster-James, M., & Bentley, G. R. (2018). Beyond the Sex Doll: Post-Human Companionship and the Rise of the ‘Allodoll’. Robotics, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics7040062

The increasing market for realistic sex dolls has led to heated debate about future relationships with these entities and whether they could lead to an increasing objectification of women or possibly encourage abuse. However, limited academic researc... Read More about Beyond the Sex Doll: Post-Human Companionship and the Rise of the ‘Allodoll’.

Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men (2018)
Journal Article
Magid, K., Chatterton, R. T., Ahamed, F. U., & Bentley, G. R. (2018). Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(7), 1146-1154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0567-6

Male reproductive investment is energetically costly, and measures of human reproductive steroid hormones (testosterone), developmental tempo (pubertal timing) and growth (stature) correlate with local ecologies at the population level. It is unclear... Read More about Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men.