Review · 2015

The dual-hormone hypothesis: a brief review and future research agenda

P. H. Mehta, S. Prasad. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.

Reviews evidence that testosterone predicts status-seeking when cortisol is low, and sets boundary conditions (context, sex, measurement) that later meta-analyses would stress.

Open source doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.12.001

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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.
T/C is a derived index. Stamp it smoke unless the paper pre-registered the ratio and showed the interaction.

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