Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods
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Re: Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods
#2It's funny/scary how much less sophisticated we humans are than how imagine ourselves to be.
Re: Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods
#3TL/DR anyone?
Re: Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods
#4Is this still scientific news?
We have sort of established that testosterone amplifies risk taking, aggressiveness and desire for social dominance. So of course status goods?
(Not a snark comment. Asking a CS/Math graduate.)
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#5TL/DR anyone?
Don't let your wife do roids unless you have plenty of cash for Prada and Channel purses and bottles of Moët '99.
Edit: Looks like this effects happen in men only.
Re: Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods
#6Is this still scientific news? We have sort of established that testosterone amplifies risk taking, aggressiveness and desire for social dominance. So of course status goods? (Not a snark comment. Asking a CS/Math graduate.)
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Re: Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods
#7It's funny/scary how much less sophisticated we humans are than how imagine ourselves to be.
Following our nature is easy, we just do it naturally. Opposing our baser instincts is hard, so a lot of people don't. The greatest leap as a species we can take is if we can make it a social imperative to act against those urges, but in today's corporate-controlled world, our "corporate overlords" want us to react on instinct to purchase expensive, wasteful, and useless items and services. Until we figure out how to hold a corporation to the same ethics and morals we hold individuals, that won't happen.
Re: Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods
#8TL/DR anyone?
Don't let your wife do roids unless you have plenty of cash for Prada and Channel purses and bottles of Moët '99. Edit: Looks like this effects happen in men only.
Testosterone affects sex drive in women as well. The study only concerned male participants, but it’s possible that women are also affected in the same way.
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#9It's funny/scary how much less sophisticated we humans are than how imagine ourselves to be.
When you think about it though, for all our sophistication we...
>Can only hold ~7 unique items in mind
>Have relatively low resolution memory, and instead of just seeing it like that, unsure/unknown details are filled in almost arbitrarily
>Are absolutely entirely single threaded - best form of multitasking is quick switching at a rate that obscures the switching - switching is still occurring though and is observable
>Use language with lots of complexity maybe, but in simple algorithmic/programmed ways (grammer isn't straightforward, but lots of typical interactions are basically algorithms we naturally act out)
We are a collection of narrow intelligences which are quite powerful, and when combined result in a working general intelligence (to different degrees of success). That general intelligence sees the power of the narrow bits that make it up and proclaims "wow, I am complex and powerful" when its really just the cobbled together result.
Re: Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods
#10Is this still scientific news? We have sort of established that testosterone amplifies risk taking, aggressiveness and desire for social dominance. So of course status goods? (Not a snark comment. Asking a CS/Math graduate.)
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