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And while the authors of the current study chose only women to participate (because they tend to have more stable "baseline" levels of testosterone than men), Coates says the hormone influences the sexes differently. "The locations and sensitivity of testosterone receptors is different for men and for women. For that...
But in other situations, a surge of testosterone may prompt people to engage in more cooperative behavior. For the new study, researchers enrolled 121 women to play what economists call the "ultimate bargaining game": one participant is given a certain amount of money and instructed to offer a portion to...
The study authors hypothesized that participants taking testosterone would engage in riskier, more aggressive behavior - that is, offer their fellow participant a lesser amount of money. What happened instead was that the women who received testosterone made significantly more equitable offers than those who received a placebo, offering their partners...
"If you give a lizard testosterone, it becomes more aggressive. But we are not lizards. Our social interactions are nuanced and complex," explains lead author Michael Naef of the Experimental Economics Lab at Royal Holloway College at the University of London. "In many human interactions, it is social rather than...
The study's authors also found that women who believed they had received a testosterone supplement - whether they had or not - made much greedier and more self-serving offers, suggesting that the assumption of testosterone's influence became an enabler of antisocial behavior. "It's not the hormone but the...