Acute stress increases sex differences in risk seeking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Lighthall, Nichole R ^a   Mather, Mara ^a   Gorlick, Marissa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON ANALOGUE RISK TASK; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SAFETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; MENTAL STRESS; SALIVA;

COLD TEMPERATURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 67749116610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006002     Document Type: Article

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