Does risk-taking mediate the relationship between testosterone and decision-making on the Iowa Gambling Task?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 61-62, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-62

  Evans, Kelly L ^a   Hampson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

2D:4D; Androgen; CWT; Decision making; IGT; JPI R; PFC; Prenatal; Risk taking; Saliva; T; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896546207     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.011     Document Type: Article

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