In the following article the authors look at the dual hormone hypothesis of cortisol and three sex hormones, testosterone, estrogen and progesterone.
Barel, E., Shahrabani, S., & Tzischinsky, O. (2017). Sex hormone/cortisol ratios differentially modulate risk-taking in men and women. Evolutionary psychology, 15(1), 1474704917697333.
You can access the article via google scholar https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Sex+Hormone%2FCortisol+Ratios+Differentially+Modulate+Risk-Taking+in+Men+and+Women&btnG= (Links to an external site.)
This assignment will be graded on your summary of the article (65%) and also your comment on the summary of one other student (35%).
Please submit a summary of this article written into the discussion board, not as an uploaded file, in no more than words and comment on the summary of one other student. Please note the name of the student’s summary you are replying to. You will not be able to view the posts on the discussion board of others until you have posted your discussion.
In the summary of the article please address the following issues:
What is the involvement of sex hormones in risk taking behaviour and sex differences in risk taking behaviour?
What are the main findings of the study?
What do the results tell us about the dual hormone hypothesis and (briefly) sex differences in risk taking behaviour?
