Trial reportPloS one2012
Testosterone administration reduces lying in men.
Trial report in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior through impacting choice consistency in healthy males.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Trial
- The role of oxytocin on self-serving lying.Brain and behavior · 2020Trial
- Revisiting the Relation Between Steroid Hormones and Unethicality in an Exploratory, Longitudinal Study With Female Participants.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2025Article
- Beyond Trolleyology: The CNI Model of Moral-Dilemma Responses.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2025Review
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- A Combined Administration of Testosterone and Arginine Vasopressin Affects Aggressive Behavior in Males.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Oxytocin moderates the association between testosterone-cortisol ratio and trustworthiness: A randomized placebo-controlled study.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Masculinity and Lying.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Social motivation is associated with increased weight granted to cooperation-related impressions in face evaluation tasks.PloS one · 2020Article
- 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
- Preliminary evidence that androgen signaling is correlated with men's everyday language.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2018Article
- Doubled-Edged Swords in the Biology of Conflict.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
- Does monetary reward operantly enhance pain sensitivity over time? An experiment in healthy individuals.Journal of pain research · 2018Article
- Facial width-to-height ratio differs by social rank across organizations, countries, and value systems.PloS one · 2017Article
- Effects of Testosterone Administration on Strategic Gambling in Poker Play.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Power and Autistic Traits.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- Cortisol and testosterone increase financial risk taking and may destabilize markets.Scientific reports · 2015Article
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Abstract
Lying is a pervasive phenomenon with important social and economic implications. However, despite substantial interest in the prevalence and determinants of lying, little is known about its biological foundations. Here we study a potential hormonal influence, focusing on the steroid hormone testosterone, which has been shown to play an important role in social behavior. In a double-blind placebo-controlled study, 91 healthy men (24.32±2.73 years) received a transdermal administration of 50 mg of testosterone (n=46) or a placebo (n=45). Subsequently, subjects participated in a simple task, in which their payoff depended on the self-reported outcome of a die-roll. Subjects could increase their payoff by lying without fear of being caught. Our results show that testosterone administration substantially decreases lying in men. Self-serving lying occurred in both groups, however, reported payoffs were significantly lower in the testosterone group (p<0.01). Our results contribute to the recent debate on the effect of testosterone on prosocial behavior and its underlying channels.
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