Testosterone and domain-specific risk: Digit ratios (2D:4D and rel2) as predictors of recreational, financial, and social risk-taking behaviors

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 412-416

  Stenstrom, Eric ^a   Saad, Gad ^a   Nepomuceno, Marcelo V ^a   Mendenhall, Zack ^a  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digit ratio (2D:4D, rel2); Financial; Prenatal testosterone; Recreational; Risk taking; Sex differences; Social

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959358529     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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