Testosterone causes both prosocial and antisocial status-enhancing behaviors in human males

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

Volumn 113, Issue 41, 2016, Pages 11633-11638

  Dreher, Jean Claude ^a,b,c   Dunne, Simon ^a,d   Pazderska, Agnieszka ^e   Frodl, Thomas ^a,f,g   Nolan, John J ^e,h   O'Doherty, John P ^c,d  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^f OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^h STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aggression; Generosity; Human males; Social status; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR; PROVOCATION; PUNISHMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; GAME; PATHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MALE; PUNISHMENT; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84991508465     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1608085113     Document Type: Article

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