Figure 1

The atlas

Four columns, not a hairball. Hover a node to isolate its neighborhood. Open an edge from the index below — the figure is the picture, the list is the citation. Filters are shareable query strings.

36 edges in this cut — click a curve or a row

1. MECHANISMT → StatusBasal T is not a leadership switch. The dual-hormone claim is an interaction, and the interaction is small and contested.
2. MECHANISMCortisol → LeadershipHigh cortisol is the condition under which 'high T = leader' fails. The internet quote drops this term.
3. LOOPWin/loss → TWinning a meaningful contest raises T relative to losing. That T change then colors the next contest. A loop, not an arrow.
4. LOOPT → Win/lossThe other half of the loop: higher T states make another challenge more likely. Evidence is thinner than the win→T half.
5. MECHANISMT → UG rejectExogenous T changes bargaining — but not in the folk direction, and not in every lab.
6. SMOKEIncome → Youth pref.Richer men can act on a preference that poorer men also often hold. Money changes the feasible set, not necessarily the utility function.
7. SMOKEIncome → HypergamyAs the income gap closes, strict economic hypergamy yields to educational and cultural homogamy. Incentives, not a frozen instinct.
8. MECHANISMEducation → HomogamyEducation sorts the rooms where people meet. Homogamy is mostly a market-design fact.
9. MENDELIAN25(OH)D → EmploymentGenetic instruments for 25(OH)D do not buy you a job. The observational D–success link was a marker.
10. SMOKE25(OH)D → IncomePeople with money and outdoor lives have higher 25(OH)D. That is not D causing the money.
11. SMOKEVitamins → EmploymentThe archetypal smoke. Control for education, parental SES, and baseline income and the supplement→career effect goes to zero.
12. SMOKEOmega-3 → EmploymentFish-oil buyers are not a random sample of the labor force.
13. MECHANISMIncome → VitaminsMoney buys bottles. Reverse causation is the whole trick of the wellness-to-wealth genre.
14. MECHANISMOutdoors → 25(OH)DSun makes 25(OH)D. This is the boring, real arrow that makes D a terrible instrument for success.
15. MECHANISMSleep → TCut sleep, cut T. Small trial, right design, right direction.
16. MECHANISMSleep → CortisolSleep debt is an HPA intervention. It is also a HOMA-IR intervention.
17. MECHANISMSleep → HOMA-IRYou can buy a continuous glucose monitor or you can sleep. One of these has a trial behind it.
18. MECHANISMSleep → CognitionCut sleep, cut attention. The meta is large; the leap to 'sleep your way to a title' is not in it.
19. MECHANISMPrestige → LeadershipIf people follow you because you are worth copying, the group gets coordination without fear. That is a different hormone story.
20. MECHANISMDominance → StatusDominance is a means. Status is the end. Folklore treats them as synonyms.
21. SMOKEIncome → RiskHolt–Laury measures the preference. Income changes the budget. Do not call either 'testosterone'.
22. MECHANISMUPF → HOMA-IRUPF raises intake in a ward trial. That is a food-environment effect, not a moral one, and it is not a career steroid.
23. MECHANISMNetwork → EmploymentWho you know is a hiring channel. It is also a backdoor in every supplement-and-success regression.
24. MECHANISMAlcohol → THeavy drinking is an HPG intervention. A glass of wine is not a T protocol in reverse.
25. MECHANISMAlcohol → SleepAlcohol is a sleep toxin with a sedative costume. It sits upstream of the sleep→T and sleep→cortisol arrows.
26. SMOKET/C → StatusT/C is a derived index. Stamp it smoke unless the paper pre-registered the ratio and showed the interaction.
27. SMOKEWealth → HypergamyAssets change the feasible set in a mating market. That is not a new instinct.
28. SMOKEPower → Youth pref.Command over people is not a separately identified cause of youth preference. It usually arrives with money.
29. MECHANISMLifting → TLifting is a body-composition and insulin intervention. It is a weak basal-T intervention.
30. SMOKEDHEA-S → StatusDHEA-S on an optimization panel is not a status intervention.
31. SMOKEE2 → DominanceCycle-phase 'preference for dominance' is a contested meta-finding, not a hormone dial.
32. MECHANISMFerritin → CognitionFix a ferritin deficit and attention can move. Raise a normal ferritin and you have a supplement ad.
33. SMOKESOI-R → HypergamyUnrestricted sociosexuality is not a stealth measure of 'women want richer men'.
34. SMOKEPower pose → TTwo minutes in a stance does not identify an androgen change. The larger RCT is a null. The TED talk is not a protocol.
35. SMOKEPower pose → RiskExpansive posture is not a Holt–Laury intervention. The 2010 risk result did not replicate.
36. SMOKEOT → TrustThe trust-hormone slogan is a 2005 RCT that did not survive its own authors' registered replication.