Testosterone May Affect How People Respond to Social Threats (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Testosterone May Affect How People Respond to Social Threats (3 of 3)

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Testosterone administration increased amygdala responses during social threat approach. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 12, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Radke at Radboud University Nijmegen in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "Testosterone biases the amygdala towards social threat approach."

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[Credit: Sina Radke; angry face obtained from the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces database (Lundqvist, Flykt, & Öhman, 1998; Identity AM29) and reproduced with permission from the copyright holders.]

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