An essential tension can be found between researchers interested in ecological validity and
those concerned with maintaining experimental control. Research in the human …

Testosterone is often considered a critical regulator of aggressive behaviour. There is
castration/replacement evidence that testosterone indeed drives aggression in some …

The emergence of social neuroscience has significantly advanced our understanding of the
relationship that exists between social processes and their neurobiological underpinnings …

A large body of evidence indicates that individual differences in baseline concentrations of
testosterone (T) are only weakly correlated with human aggression. Importantly, T …

Highlights•This paper reviews evidence for the dual-hormone hypothesis.•Testosterone's
association with status-relevant behavior depends on cortisol.•Behaviors include …

Recent theories propose that testosterone should be positively related to risk-taking, but
empirical support is mixed. Building on the dual-hormone hypothesis, the present research …

Introduction Scholars have established subcategories of aggressive behavior in order to
better understand this construct. Specifically, a classification based on motivational …

According to the dual-hormone hypothesis, the relationship between testosterone and status-
relevant behavior is moderated by cortisol, suggesting this relationship only exists when …

A contribution to a special issue on Hormones and Human Competition. Since Archer's
(2006) influential meta-analysis, there has been a major increase in the number of studies …

Social exclusion and risk-taking are both common experiences of concern in adolescence,
yet little is known about how the two may be related at behavioral or neural levels. In this …