Abstract

SIURANA, David; GADEA, Marien  and  ESPERT, Raúl. Organizational and activational effects of testosterone on risk-taking in economical behavior: A systematic review. Suma Psicol. [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.2, pp.142-152. ISSN 0121-4381.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sumpsi.2017.06.003.

This systematic review undertook to evaluate the influence of circulating testosterone (activational effects) and the pre-natal exposure to this (organisational effects) as regards risk-taking decisions in financial behaviour. An evaluation was also made on the research work to date on this subject. The bibliographic database analysed was obtained from different databases specialised in the field of psychology and neuroscience. The results obtained show a relationship between circulating testosterone and financial risk-taking. As regards prenatal exposure, research on this topic is still in its infancy, since the few articles found widely differ in methodologies and results. It is hoped that this study will serve as an over view of the current state of the topic, in order to unify the methodologies and to try to improve the quality of future research.

Keywords : Testosterone; Organisational effects; Activational effects; Risk-taking; Economical behaviour.

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