Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2009
A randomized trial of the effect of estrogen and testosterone on economic behavior.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03210558 (Effects of Moderately Increased Testosterone Concentration on Physical Performance and Behaviour in Healthy Women - a Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers.
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Effects of Moderately Increased Testosterone Concentration on Physical Performance and Behaviour in Healthy Women - a Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Study
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed.
- Investigating the effects of single-dose intranasal testosterone on economic preferences in a large randomized trial of men.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Trial
- Does testosterone impair men's cognitive empathy? Evidence from two large-scale randomized controlled trials.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Trial
- 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 · 2016Trial
- Testosterone administration reduces lying in men.PloS one · 2012Trial
- Gonadal hormones and impulsivity facets: moderating roles of cortisol and anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Testosterone promotes dominance behaviors in the Ultimatum Game after players' status increases.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- On the robustness of gender differences in economic behavior.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A Bayesian Modeling Approach to Examine the Role of Testosterone Administration on the Endowment Effect and Risk-Taking.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Oxytocin moderates the association between testosterone-cortisol ratio and trustworthiness: A randomized placebo-controlled study.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Aging, Social Distancing, and COVID-19 Risk: Who is more Vulnerable and Why?Aging and disease · 2021Review
- Masculinity and Lying.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Digit ratio (2D : 4D) and prosocial behaviour in economic games: no direct correlation with generosity, bargaining or trust-related behaviours.Biology letters · 2019Article
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- Testing the influence of testosterone administration on men's honesty in a large laboratory experiment.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Single-dose testosterone administration increases men's preference for status goods.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Exogenous Testosterone Enhances the Reactivity to Social Provocation in Males.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- No Evidence for a Relationship Between Hair Testosterone Concentrations and 2D:4D Ratio or Risk Taking.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Testosterone promotes either dominance or submissiveness in the Ultimatum Game depending on players' social rank.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Prenatal exposure to testosterone (2D:4D) and social hierarchy together predict voice behavior in bankers.PloS one · 2017Article
- Sex Hormone/Cortisol Ratios Differentially Modulate Risk-Taking in Men and Women.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior · 2017Article
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Abstract
Existing correlative evidence suggests that sex hormones may affect economic behavior such as risk taking and reciprocal fairness. To test this hypothesis we conducted a double-blind randomized study. Two-hundred healthy postmenopausal women aged 50-65 years were randomly allocated to 4 weeks of treatment with estrogen, testosterone, or placebo. At the end of the treatment period, the subjects participated in a series of economic experiments that measure altruism, reciprocal fairness, trust, trustworthiness, and risk attitudes. There was no significant effect of estrogen or testosterone on any of the studied behaviors.
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