Dominance, politics, and physiology: Voters' testosterone changes on the night of the 2008 United States presidential election

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Stanton, Steven J ^a   Beehner, Jacinta C ^b   Saini, Ekjyot K ^b   Kuhn, Cynthia M ^c   LaBar, Kevin S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLITICS; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES; AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SALIVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449560406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007543     Document Type: Article

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