Testosterone disrupts human collaboration by increasing egocentric choices

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1736, 2012, Pages 2275-2280

  Wright, Nicholas D ^a,b   Bahrami, Bahador ^c,d,e   Johnson, Emily ^a   di Malta, Gina ^a   Rees, Geraint ^a,c   Frith, Christopher D ^a,d   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Information aggregation; Social; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84859949264     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2523     Document Type: Article

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