Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7279, 2010, Pages 356-359

  Eisenegger, C ^a   Naef, M ^a,b   Snozzi, R ^a   Heinrichs, M ^c   Fehr, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; BARGAINING; CONSPECIFIC; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PSYCHOLOGY; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ADULT; AGGRESSION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLACEBOS; PREJUDICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 75149139003     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08711     Document Type: Article

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