Pyrrhic victories: The need for social status drives costly competitive behavior

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 OCT, 2013, Pages

  Van Den Bos, Wouter ^a,b   Golka, Philipp J M ^a,c   Effelsberg, David ^a,d   McClure, Samuel M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Competition; Cortisol; Minimal groups; Social status; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84888794891     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00189     Document Type: Article

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