Testosterone decreases trust in socially naïve humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 9991-9995

  Bos, Peter A ^a   Terburg, David ^a   Van Honk, Jack ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Competition; Hormones; Judgment; Oxytocin; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRUST;

AROUSAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; SALIVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953451320     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911700107     Document Type: Article

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