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Alleviating social avoidance : effects of single dose testosterone administration on approach-avoidance action . Testosterone is an important regulator of social-motivational behavior and is known for its dominance-enhancing and social-anxiolytic properties . However , to date no studies have systematically investigated the causal effect of testosterone on actual social approach-avoidance behavior in humans . The present study sets out to test the effects of testosterone administration in healthy female volunteers using an objective implicit measure of social motivational behavior : the social Approach-Avoidance Task , a reaction time task requiring participants to approach or avoid visually presented emotional ( happy , angry , and neutral ) faces . Participants showed significantly diminished avoidance tendencies to angry faces after testosterone administration . Testosterone did not affect approach-avoidance tendencies to social affiliation ( happy ) faces . Thus , a single dose testosterone administration reduces automatic avoidance of social threat and promotes relative increase of threat approach tendencies in healthy females . These findings further the understanding of the neuroendocrine regulation of social motivational behavior and may have direct treatment implications for social anxiety , characterized by persistent social avoidance .
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Intervention_Pharmacological
single dose testosterone administration
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Intervention_Pharmacological
Testosterone
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Intervention_Pharmacological
testosterone administration
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Intervention_Pharmacological
testosterone
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Intervention_Pharmacological
Testosterone
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Intervention_Pharmacological
testosterone
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Outcome_Physical
approach-avoidance action .
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Outcome_Mental
social-motivational behavior
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Outcome_Mental
dominance-enhancing and social-anxiolytic
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Outcome_Mental
actual social approach-avoidance behavior
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Outcome_Mental
social motivational behavior :
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Outcome_Mental
social Approach-Avoidance Task
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Outcome_Physical
approach or avoid visually presented emotional ( happy , angry , and neutral ) faces .
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Outcome_Mental
avoidance tendencies
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Outcome_Physical
angry faces
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Outcome_Mental
approach-avoidance tendencies to social affiliation ( happy ) faces .
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Outcome_Mental
automatic avoidance of social threat and promotes relative increase of threat approach tendencies
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Outcome_Mental
social anxiety
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Outcome_Mental
social avoidance .
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Participant_Sex
female
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Participant_Sex
females