Cortisol shifts financial risk preferences Narayanan Kandasamy1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3608-3613

  Hardy, Ben ^b,e   Page, Lionel ^c   Schaffner, Markus ^c   Graggaber, Johann ^a   Powlson, Andrew S ^a   Fletcher, Paul C ^d   Gurnell, Mark ^a   Coates, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; UNCERTAINTY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SALIVA; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84895799414     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317908111     Document Type: Article

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