Testosterone and risk: change may bemore important than the level

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  • Takafumi Matsuba
    Department of Economics and Information Sciences, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University
  • Sato Jun
    Department of Economics and Information Sciences, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University
  • Kura Kenya
    Department of Economics and Information Sciences, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University
  • Aoki Takako
    Department of Food and Nutrition, Gifu City Women's College
  • Murakami Hiroshi
    School of Dentistry, Aichi Gakuin University

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Other Title
  • テストステロンと経済行動:濃度変化がリスクをとらせる

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We tested the relationship between women's testosterone (T) concentration levels and their risk-preferences, their time discount rates, and their social behavior with dictator game. As for the risk-preferences, we utilized both choice task and matching task. We artificially decreased subjects' T levels with a dose of pure glucose and compared their economic response with the controls. We found no statistical relationship between T concentration and risk-preferences, and between T concentration and time discount rate. However, short time spontaneous changes in T levels had a positive relationship with matching task, but not with choice task. This may reflect that matching task is similar to the risk situation whereas choice task to uncertainty.

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390001205344834944
  • NII Article ID
    130004554859
  • DOI
    10.11167/jbef.3.194
  • ISSN
    21853568
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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