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...journal, 17 London traders, aged 18 to 38, donated saliva samples over an eight-day period. Each time they did - once at 11 am, and again at 4 pm, book-ending the bulk of each day's transactions - the traders, dealing mostly in futures, recorded their current profit-and-loss standing. (They were also quizzed to make sure that nothing they'd eaten or talked about outside of their work was acting on their hormone levels...
...Taking the average of just two daily samples makes it tricky to untangle the impact that a higher than average testosterone level has on that day's profit and loss - or vice versa. More telling, though, is the correlation between a higher morning testosterone level and the pumped-up profits recorded later the same day. Traders scored elevated testosterone on different days, scratching out any chance that blanket market changes were at work on the entire group's profits (and hormones). The traders' levels of cortisol, meanwhile, a hormone affecting their response to challenge or stress that was measured using...
...Last Wednesday, after a tough 3-0 loss to UMass in the first round of the Beanpot Tournament, a disheartened Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh informed The Crimson that the Red Sox had canceled the Beanpot consolation game at Fenway Park...
...Pitcher of the Year and a unanimous First Team All-Ivy pick last season, took some time to hit her stride this season. After a rocky outing against Princeton on March 30, when Madick gave up five runs in just 2.1 innings of work in a 5-4 Harvard loss, coach Jenny Allard changed up Madick’s role—and the Crimson’s fortunes. “She wasn’t in a rhythm a couple of weeks ago, so I made the decision to move her in the closing role so she could...
...matter what, the weekend’s results would feel like a victory for the struggling Harvard baseball team.Yesterday, the Crimson (4-25, 3-9 Ivy) continued its breakout offensive weekend and received two solid outings from veteran starters Shawn Haviland and Brad Unger, but a heartbreaking walk-off loss in the weekend finale left it with a sour taste in its mouth—and a split that won’t help it gain ground in the Ivy League standings. Hot Harvard bats paced the Crimson to a 9-5 win in the first of two games...