Testosterone response to competition in males is unrelated to opponent familiarity or threat appraisal

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Oliveira, Gonçalo A ^a   Uceda, Sara ^a,b   Oliveira, Tânia F ^a   Fernandes, Alexandre C ^a   Garcia Marques, Teresa ^a   Oliveira, Rui F ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Androgens; Challenge hypothesis; Cognition; Sex factors; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923338496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01240     Document Type: Article

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