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To determine whether participants were truly blind to their treatment group assignation, we examined their self-reported beliefs regarding whether they had received testosterone or placebo; 6 of 40 participants reported believing that they had received testosterone. We did not find an effect of testosterone within the placebo group on the magnitudes of punishment or reward chosen by participants (Table S4). However, [purchase testosterone](https://gitea.css-sistemas.com.br/shaynaldn10373) is converted to the estrogen estradiol by the enzyme aromatase, a relationship that is reflected in a concomitant rise in the estradiol levels of participants in our testosterone group relative to those in our placebo group (SI Results).
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One possibility for future studies would be to suppress the conversion of testosterone to estradiol with the administration of an aromatase inhibitor. Furthermore, they chose rewards of greater magnitude than those administered placebo. This absence of a reduction in reaction times suggests that injection with testosterone did not render participants more impulsive. This influence is particularly relevant in the case of testosterone, for which there exists a strong folk belief linking it to aggression and violence (40). This low number may result from the difference between the popular beliefs about the effects of behavior and its actual effects as illustrated in this manuscript.
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The inclusion of these regressors also revealed distinct effects of treatment belief on participants’ behavior (SI Results and Fig. S3). Follow-up analyses show that this increasing rate of punishment with offer amount was restricted to below-average offer amounts (SI Results and Table S3), indicating that treatment with [buy testosterone enanthate](http://175.27.132.111:43000/gaildix4210224/1148deltasongs.com/wiki/Unveiling-the-Human-with-the-Highest-Testosterone-Levels%3A-A-Comprehensive-Exploration) did indeed selectively increase punishment of unfair offers. Null effects of treatment group in one or both of these analyses would indicate that testosterone administration did not influence rates of both punishment and reward. The results of this ordered probit regression indicate that participants administered testosterone were more likely to punish proposers who offered below-average amounts, whereas for offers of above-average amounts, they were more likely to reward the proposer.
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Because of technical problems, two participants completed 60 and 72 trials, respectively. Finally, participants were shown their net winnings and those of the proposer for the trial for 3 s. If they chose to punish or reward, they specified its magnitude (€2, €4, €6, or €8) at the following screen. If they chose to accept, the sum of money was divided according to the offer, whereas if they chose to reject, the sum of money was returned to the experimenter. Every trial began with the presentation of the image of a proposer along with the offer to split the sum of money shown both in text form and using a colored horizontal bar, where the proportion colored yellow indicated the proportion of the sum being offered to the responder.
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Bar plot of participants’ average acceptance rates as a function of offer amount for the placebo (pale green) and testosterone (dark green) groups. Offers of small amounts of money would be perceived as unfair (32) and be punished more strongly by those administered testosterone, but reward of generous offers would not be decreased by treatment. Second, it has not been shown that testosterone may cause nonaggressive, even prosocial, behaviors in males if those behaviors are consistent with increasing status. In line with this observation, an alternative theory of testosterone’s effect on male behavior proposes that, instead of promoting only aggressive behaviors, testosterone promotes behaviors intended to achieve and [62.234.194.66](http://62.234.194.66:3000/barbgarvan4702) maintain social status or dominance (28, 29). The limited number of experimental studies that have manipulated male testosterone levels during economic games (9, 10) found that administration of testosterone caused participants to be less generous to others (10) and more likely to punish those who stole from them (9).
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