 A pilot study for measuring correlations between hormone levels and risk taking in men and women at different times of dayJale S. Oran and Ayça Akyatan International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance, 2012, vol. 3, issue 3/4, 202-220 Abstract: Risk taking is a part of life, and people take risks in different contexts. Risk taking is mostly associated with aggression. Numerous studies have explored differences in risk taking between the genders. In addition, the relationships between risk taking and the hormones cortisol and testosterone have recently attracted attention. There were two main objectives of this study. First, we looked for correlations between risk-taking behaviour and the hormones cortisol, testosterone and estradiol. Second, we asked whether gender and/or time of day impacted these correlations. The subjects were undergraduate students in the Business Administration Department of Marmara University. We found a significant correlation in one category. However, when we compared the correlations across sessions and genders, we found that risk taking was more strongly associated with testosterone and cortisol in men than in women and that hormones and risk taking were more strongly associated in the afternoon than in the morning. Keywords: male risk taking; female risk taking; cortisol; testosterone; estradiol; gender; session difference; hormone levels; men; women; time of day; risk taking behaviour. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijbeaf:v:3:y:2012:i:3/4:p:202-220 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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