Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women

Social interactions elicit androgen responses whose function has been posited to be the adjustment of androgen dependent behaviors to social context. The activation of this androgen response is known to be mediated and moderated by psychological factors. In this study we tested the hypothesis that t...

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Main Authors: Rui F Oliveira, Gonçalo A. Oliveira, Sara eUceda, Tania eF. De Oliveira, Alexandre eFernandes, Teresa eGarcia-Marques
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00389/full