RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0037
A1 Bonnefon, Jean-François
A1 De Neys, Wim
A1 Hopfensitz, Astrid
T1 Low second-to-fourth digit ratio predicts indiscriminate social suspicion, not improved trustworthiness detection
JF Biology Letters
YR 2013
FD 2013-04
VO vol. 9
IS n° 2
AB Hormones can make us trust or distrust other people. Testosterone, in particular, appears to decrease feeling of trust. It had been assumed so far that testosterone made us less trusting because it made us better at spotting cheaters. This paper, however, suggests that testosterone makes us bluntly suspicious of everyone -- trustworthy and untrustworthy persons all the same. Prenatal exposition to testosterone (tracked by the relative lengths of index and ring fingers) predicted the way individuals trust 20 years after: Subjects with high prenatal exposure trusted less, but their ability to spot cheaters was the same as anybody else.
PB The Royal Society
SN 1744-9561
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15521/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/26860