Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Financial risk behavior shown in men with higher testosterone levels!

ScienceDaily (2008-09-30) -- Two researchers from Harvard jointly led a recent study in which they showed that men with higher testosterone levels invest more money during a risky investment game. The study associates higher testosterone levels with financial risk-taking behavior. LINK

Women's mirror neurons activate when looking at other's emotional faces but men's do not!

A recent paper (Shulte-Ruther et al. 2008) found that women, when evaluating the emotional expressions in faces, showed higher activation in right inferior frontal cortex where mirror neurons are believed to be, while men did not show this activation.