Testosterone and the pursuit of possessions: The interaction between baseline testosterone and intrasexual competition on materialism in males
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While materialism has been extensively examined from sociocultural, psychological, and individual difference perspectives, little research has explored its physiological basis. This study investigates the association between baseline testosterone, a hormone related to status-seeking motives, and materialism in males. Baseline testosterone levels were measured using salivary samples, and participants were randomly assigned to either an intrasexual competition condition or a control condition. Materialism was assessed using a standardized scale. A positive association was found between baseline testosterone levels and materialism, but only among participants in the intrasexual competition condition. In contrast, in the control condition, baseline testosterone was negatively associated with materialism. These findings suggest that, within intrasexually competitive contexts, baseline testosterone levels might promote men's pursuit of material possessions to not only enhance status and but also view possessions as more integral to one's life and a source of personal fulfillment. Our research contributes to understanding the physiological underpinnings of materialistic values and highlights the role of hormones and situational contexts in shaping materialistic values.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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