Testosterone's Negative Relationship With Empathic Accuracy and Perceived Leadership Ability

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 92-99

  Ronay, Richard ^a   Carney, Dana R ^b  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

interpersonal processes; nonverbal behavior; person perception; psychophysiology; social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870934115     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612442395     Document Type: Article

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