The myth of the Lehman Sisters? Sex, testosterone, and financial risk-taking

Cordelia Fine (University of Melbourne)

There is growing scientific interest in the role of testosterone in financial risk-taking – a topic of considerable public interest too, with suggestions that there is “too much testosterone on Wall Street”. Both research and debate is often grounded in an implicit model in which testosterone is presumed to be the proximal mechanism underlying the evolved masculine trait of risk-taking. This talk will identify a number of problems with the underlying assumptions of this model, and report the findings from a meta-analytic study on testosterone and financial risk-taking.

Registration for this event will be opened on February 15, 2016.