The second-to-fourth digit ratio correlates with the rate of academic performance in medical school students

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 471-476

  Coco, Marinella ^a   Perciavalle, Valentina ^a   Maci, Tiziana ^a   Nicoletti, Ferdinando ^a   Di Corrado, Donatella ^b   Perciavalle, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b KORE UNIVERSITY OF ENNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Aggressiveness; Competition; Decision making; Digit ratio; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FINGER; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; SALIVA LEVEL;

ACHIEVEMENT; FINGERS; FRUSTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; SALIVA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79953768935     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2011.456     Document Type: Article

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