ArticlePsychological science2017
Single-Dose Testosterone Administration Impairs Cognitive Reflection in Men.
Article in Psychological science, 2017. 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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- Effect of exogenous testosterone on cooperation depends on personality and time pressure.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Trial
- Cognitive reflection, 2D:4D and social value orientation.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Testosterone and the Amygdala's Functional Connectivity in Women and Men.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The Optimal Time-lag for Testosterone Challenge Research Based on Salivary Profiles Following Different Doses of Transdermal Testosterone Administrations.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2023Article
- Toward a better understanding of the causal effects of role demands on work-family conflict: A genetic modeling approach.The Journal of applied psychology · 2023Article
- Review Article: Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids, Violence, and Crime: Two Cases and Literature Review.The American journal on addictions · 2021Review
- Effect of Sex and Reproductive Status on Inhibitory Control and Social Cognition in the Domestic Dog (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Weak and Variable Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Cognitive Reflection Test Performance in Three Experiments: Commentary on Nave, Nadler, Zava, and Camerer (2017).Psychological science · 2020Article
- Testosterone reduces the threat premium in competitive resource division.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- What has sex got to do with it? The role of hormones in the transgender brain.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Review
- 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
- Two types of aggression in human evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Economic Holobiont: Influence of Parasites, Microbiota and Chemosignals on Economic Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Testosterone, Cortisol and Financial Risk-Taking.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Review
- The Effect of Testosterone Administration and Digit Ratio (2D:4D) on Implicit Preference for Status Goods in Healthy Males.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
In nonhumans, the sex steroid testosterone regulates reproductive behaviors such as fighting between males and mating. In humans, correlational studies have linked testosterone with aggression and disorders associated with poor impulse control, but the neuropsychological processes at work are poorly understood. Building on a dual-process framework, we propose a mechanism underlying testosterone's behavioral effects in humans: reduction in cognitive reflection. In the largest study of behavioral effects of testosterone administration to date, 243 men received either testosterone or placebo and took the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), which estimates the capacity to override incorrect intuitive judgments with deliberate correct responses. Testosterone administration reduced CRT scores. The effect remained after we controlled for age, mood, math skills, whether participants believed they had received the placebo or testosterone, and the effects of 14 additional hormones, and it held for each of the CRT questions in isolation. Our findings suggest a mechanism underlying testosterone's diverse effects on humans' judgments and decision making and provide novel, clear, and testable predictions.
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