Meta-analysis · 2020

Evidence from meta-analyses of the facial width-to-height ratio versus the dual-hormone hypothesis as predictors of status-seeking

S. N. Geniole, T. L. F. McCormick. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology.

Later quantitative reviews of the dual-hormone literature find a small, heterogeneous, publication-bias-sensitive effect. The interaction is not a law of nature. It is a live, contested hypothesis.

Open source doi:10.1007/s40750-019-00120-5

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Basal T is not a leadership switch. The dual-hormone claim is an interaction, and the interaction is small and contested.

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