No sound evidence for a gender-specific effect of testosterone administration on aggressive motivation exists: Reply to Josephs et al.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 510-511

  Eisenegger, Christoph ^a   Haushofer, Johannes ^b   Fehr, Ernst ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LETTER; PLACEBO EFFECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THREAT;

EID: 82455172022     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.09.006     Document Type: Letter

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