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Facts and Misconceptions about 2D:4D, Social and Risk Preferences.
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Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience [Front Behav Neurosci] 2018 Feb 13; Vol. 12, pp. 22. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Feb 13 (Print Publication: 2018). - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- We study how the ratio between the length of the second and fourth digit (2D:4D) correlates with choices in social and risk preferences elicitation tasks by building a large dataset from five experimental projects with more than 800 subjects. Our results confirm the recent literature that downplays the link between 2D:4D and many domains of economic interest, such as social and risk preferences. As for the former, we find that social preferences are significantly lower when 2D:4D is above the median value only for subjects with low cognitive ability. As for the latter, we find that a high 2D:4D is not correlated with the frequency of subjects' risky choices.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1662-5153
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 29487510
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00022