Alleviating social avoidance: Effects of single dose testosterone administration on approach-avoidance action

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 351-354

  Enter, Dorien ^a,b   Spinhoven, Philip ^a,c   Roelofs, Karin ^b,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angry facial expressions; Approach Avoidance Task; Social action; Social approach motivation; Testosterone administration; Threat avoidance

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE TIME; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THREAT; DRUG EFFECTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PLACEBOS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896928753     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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