From molecule to market: Steroid hormones and financial risk-taking

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1538, 2010, Pages 331-343

  Coates, John M ^a   Gurnell, Mark ^b   Sarnyai, Zoltan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence; Cortisol; Memory; Rationality; Risk; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MEMORY; RATIONALIZATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 75749105066     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0193     Document Type: Review

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