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Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods

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Re: Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods

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Post by laser »

temp47653 wrote: post #4

Is 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.)

From the abstract “... testosterone increases positive attitudes toward positional goods when they are described as status-enhancing, but not when they are described as power-enhancing or high in quality.”

I would think power-enhancing things would improve one’s ability to achieve social dominance, but the effect they uncovered here seems to be even more crude and instead only has effect on stimulating a desire for immediate “improved” perception.

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Post by robotrout »

bhouston wrote: post #10
temp47653 wrote: post #4

Is 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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Even this article, you manage to inject politics into. That's unfortunate.

You will be disheartened to know that many non-propecia-taking men and women outside the blue bubble agree with many of his policies.

https://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/

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Post by inteleng »

robotrout wrote: post #14
bhouston wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Even this article, you manage to inject politics into. That's unfortunate. You will be disheartened to know that many non-propecia-taking men and women outside the blue bubble agree with many of his policies. https://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/

Here's a link from the first author's homepage: http://www.gidinave.com/presscovfefe.html

Being right is always easy when you decide what's true and what's false.

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Post by eeZah7Ux »

cleanyourroom wrote: post #2

It's funny/scary how much less sophisticated we humans are than how imagine ourselves to be.

No. People are way more complex than that.

It can be very tempting to jump to superficial conclusions by reading these publications e.g. imagine a direct correlation between testosterone and need for status.

Instead there can be a million confounding variable that depend on psychology and society.

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

vokep wrote: post #9
cleanyourroom wrote: post #2

It'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 observab…

On the flip side, we can also come up with Plato's dialogues, general relativity, La Gioconda, and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

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Post by praha14 »

I've always wondered, we know that testosterone levels have an effect on people's behavior, preferences, and disposition. We know that men and women have, on average, different levels of testosterone. Yet we know that men and women do not differ on average behavior, preferences, or disposition; that the two groups are equal. How is that possible? It seems like a shockingly simple line of logic to me but it must break down somewhere.

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Post by druffen »

vokep wrote: post #9
cleanyourroom wrote: post #2

It'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 observab…

>>>le meme arrows
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