Posts tagged with: Hormones
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust. (2012)
"Coates identifies a feedback loop between testosterone and success that dramatically lowers the fear of risk in men. Similarly, intense failure leads to a rise in levels of cortisol that lowers...
Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism. (2011)
Oxytocin creates intergroup bias because oxytocin motivates in-group favoritism and, to a lesser extent, out-group derogation. These findings .. suggest that oxytocin has a role in the emergence of intergroup conflict...
The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates parochial altruism in intergroup conflict among humans. (2010)
"Oxytocin drives a “tend and defend” response in that it promoted in-group trust and cooperation, and defensive, but not offensive, aggression toward competing out-groups. Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Lindred...
Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour. (2010)
"...testosterone in women increased fair bargaining behaviour, reducing conflicts and increasing social efficiency. However, subjects who believed they'd received testosterone - regardless of whether they actually did - behaved much more unfairly than...
From molecule to market: steroid hormones and financial risk-taking. (2010)
"We survey research on steroid hormones and their cognitive effects, and examine potential links to trader performance in financial markets. Preliminary findings suggest that cortisol codes for risk and testosterone...
Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor. (2008)
"..a trader’s morning testosterone level predicts his day’s profitability. We also found that a trader’s cortisol rises with both the variance of his trading results and the volatility of the...
Deconstructing ‘stupidity’: why smart people often do stupid things. (2008)
To understand ‘stupidity’ it is necessary to deconstruct it and to show that it can subvert even the keenest intellect under certain conditions. Jeffrey Gandz, Professor of Strategic Leadership and...