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Women who thought they were getting a dose of testosterone behaved more aggressively and selfishly–whether or not they’d really been given the hormone. Women who got testosterone and didn’t know it were actually more altruistic. The researchers suspect macho testosterone lore created a “license to misbehave” in the women who thought they were under its influence.

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