Testosterone and Economic Risk Taking: A Review

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 358-385

  Apicella, Coren L ^a   Carré, Justin M ^b   Dreber, Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

2D:4D; Economic risk taking; Financial decision making; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940102040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21987335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40750-014-0020-2     Document Type: Note

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