Women with an appetite for risk may also be hungry for sex
Posted on 10/31/2009 2:46:37 PM PDT by AFPhys
...The hormone fuels sex-drive in both men and women and is associated with competitiveness and dominance.
Prior research has shown that high levels of testosterone are also linked to risky behaviour such as gambling or excessive drinking.
Scientists in the US measured the amount of testosterone in saliva samples taken from 500 male and female MBA business students at the University of Chicago.
Participants in the study were asked to play a computer game that evaluated their attitude towards risk.
A series of questions allowed them to choose between a guaranteed monetary reward or a risky lottery with a higher potential pay-out... play safe... or gamble on a bigger win.
Women who were most willing to take risks were also found to have the highest levels of testosterone, but this was not true of men.
However, men and women with the same levels of the hormone shared a similar attitude to risk.
The link between risk-taking and testosterone also had a bearing on the students' career choices after graduation.
Testosterone-driven individuals who liked to gamble went on to choose riskier careers in finance...
In general, women are known to be more risk-averse than men when it comes to financial decision making. Among the students taking part in the study, 36% of the women chose high-risk financial careers such as investment banking or trading compared with 57% of the men.
Overall, male participants displayed lower risk-aversion than their female counterparts and also had significantly higher levels of salivary testosterone...
Co-author Professor Luigi Zingales said: "This study has significant implications for how the effects of testosterone could impact actual risk-taking in financial markets, because many of these students will go on to become major players in the financial world.
"Furthermore, it could shed some light on gender differences in career choices. Future studies should further explore the mechanisms through which testosterone affects the brain."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I see nothing in the article that wasn’t already known. This was a redundant study.
Wanna lay money on that?
[LOL]
Hillary Clinton and other Wellesley grads have high levels of testosterone.
Government will now offer free testosterone to women to make up for the unfair lower amount they produce. Everyone must be equal and have equal outcomes.
I’m just wondering why they aren’t complaining that the nursing and teaching fields are so grossly skewed toward women, when will we see government putting quotas and money in to get more men into these severely under-represented areas?
I’m not saying Hillary is butch, but I will say that my aftershave and several pairs of boxer shorts are missing.
Oh.
I was hoping they meant hungry for sex with men.
Women with an appetite for risk may also be hungry for sex
Gives a new meaning to “Seeking Alpha”
parsy, who says its all Greek to him
Someone get my wife an i.v. drip, stat! She hasn’t had a sex drive since... (insert your own funny punchline here).
I think there’s a movie coming out with the same plot.
(think about it for a second...)
You should have given her cab fare before you fell asleep...
It’s a bad bad drug. LOL
its like take two aspirin and call me in the morning....we already KNEW that ....
Silly. What about conservative women who act like men, like Sarah Palin?
Or me...
OMG I am never going to wake up from this nightmare.
Someone get my wife an i.v. drip, stat! She hasn’t had a sex drive since... she ate Wedding Cake.
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