Effects of ability- and chance-determined competition on testosterone.
dc.contributor.author | van Anders, Sari M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Watson, Neil V. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-12T20:46:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-05-12T20:46:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Physiology & Behavior, 90(4), 2007, 634-642. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83882> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9384 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83882 | |
dc.description.abstract | Winning competitions has been shown to lead to higher testosterone (T) relative to losing in men and males of other species. In Experiment 1, 38 women and 37 men provided a saliva sample, completed a novel computer-based vocabulary competition task at which they won or lost based on their own ability, provided feedback about the competition via questionnaire, and then produced a second saliva sample. Task outcome and performance was not sexually differentiated, and overall task performance was negatively correlated with T. Male but not female winners had lower baseline and post-competition T, and male losers had a larger decrease in T from baseline to post-competition. In Experiment 2, 31 men and 43 women completed the same as above, but were randomly assigned to win or lose. In this case, competition outcome did not affect T for men but there was an effect such that women who would have had an ability-determined loss showed a larger decrease in T than women who would have had an ability-determined win. Thus, earned wins appear to attenuate a decline in T in men, consistent with past research into the competition effect and T, and perhaps women under complex circumstances. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Netherlands: Elsevier Science. | en_US |
dc.subject | Chance Determined Competition Outcome | en_US |
dc.subject | Testosterone | en_US |
dc.subject | Sex Differences | en_US |
dc.subject | Task Performance | en_US |
dc.title | Effects of ability- and chance-determined competition on testosterone. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Psychology, Department of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 17223140 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/83882/1/2007_van_Anders_Watson.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.11.017 | |
dc.identifier.source | Physiology & Behavior | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Psychology, Department of |
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