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RSS FeedsTestosterone Makes Men Less Likely to Question Their Impulses
(World News USA)

 
 

28 april 2017 04:16:16

 
Testosterone Makes Men Less Likely to Question Their Impulses
(World News USA)
 


Hotheaded, impulsive men who shoot first and ask questions later are a staple of Westerns and 1970s cop films, but new research shows there might be truth to the trope. A study conducted by researchers from Caltech, the Wharton School, Western University, and ZRT Laboratory tested the hypothesis that higher levels of testosterone increase the tendency in men to rely on their intuitive judgments and reduce cognitive reflection-a decision-making process by which a person stops to consider whether their gut reaction to something makes sense. The researchers found that men given doses of testosterone performed more poorly on a test designed to measure cognitive reflection than a group given a...


 
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