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The Effect of Testosterone Administration and Digit Ratio (2D:4D) on Implicit Preference for Status Goods in Healthy Males

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, October 2017
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Title
The Effect of Testosterone Administration and Digit Ratio (2D:4D) on Implicit Preference for Status Goods in Healthy Males
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, October 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00193
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Authors

Yin Wu, Samuele Zilioli, Christoph Eisenegger, Luke Clark, Hong Li

Abstract

Testosterone has been linked to social status seeking in humans. The present study investigated the effects of testosterone administration on implicit and explicit preferences for status goods in healthy male participants (n = 64), using a double-blind, placebo-controlled, between-subjects design. We also investigated the interactive effect between second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D; i.e., a proximal index of prenatal testosterone) and testosterone treatment on status preferences. Results showed that testosterone administration has no discernable influence on self-reported willingness-to-pay (i.e., the explicit measure) or implicit attitudes towards status goods. Individuals with lower 2D:4D (i.e., more masculine) had more positive attitudes for high-status goods on an Implicit Association Task, and this association was abolished with testosterone administration. These data suggest interactive effects of acute testosterone administration and prenatal testosterone exposure on human social status seeking, and highlight the utility of implicit methods for measuring status-related behavior.

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Unknown 32 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 13%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 10 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 13 41%
Unspecified 2 6%
Social Sciences 1 3%
Neuroscience 1 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 14 44%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2017.
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#4,540,610
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#742
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#23
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