Extra testosterone reduces your empathy, researchers find
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 21:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Placing testosterone under the tongue of volunteers negatively affects a person's ability to 'mind read', an indication of empathy. One implication of the new study is that current levels of testosterone directly affect the ability to read someone else's mind. This may help explain why, on average, women perform better on such tests than men, since men on average produce more testosterone than women.