High-testosterone men reject low ultimatum game offers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1623, 2007, Pages 2327-2330

  Burnham, Terence C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural economics; Reciprocal altruism; Testosterone; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

DIVERGENCE; DOMINANCE; GAME THEORY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GAME; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34548506964     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0546     Document Type: Article

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