Many important decisions are made under stress and they often involve risky alternatives. There has been ample evidence … that stress influences decision making in cognitive as well as in affective domains, but still very little is known about … whether individual attitudes to risk change with exposure to acute stress. To directly evaluate the causal effect of stress on …

cortisol levels, heart rate and multidimensional mood questionnaire scores), we show that stress was successfully induced on …Many important decisions are made under stress and they often involve risky alternatives. There has been ample evidence … that stress influences decision making, but still very little is known about whether individual attitudes to risk change …

testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol in more than 200 subjects. Females bid significantly higher and earn …. Surprisingly, we have null findings for testosterone as well as estradiol and cortisol. Controlling for risk aversion does not … behavior (i.e., weakly dominated bids). -- Hormones ; Testosterone ; Estradiol ; Progesterone ; Cortisol ; Steroids ; Auctions …