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Winning A Home Game Brings Out The Testosterone
by Paul on 01/12/09 at 08:59 AM ET
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from Tom Blackwell of the National Post,
Hockey players had much higher levels of testosterone after a winning game on home ice than after a similarly victorious match-up away from home, according to a study published in the American Journal of Human Biology.
It is not clear what triggered the hormone boost. But “a rise in status (i. e. competitive victory) in front of friends and family members may be an especially potent stimulus for the endocrine system,” the paper said.
Justin Carre, the PhD pscyhology student at Brock University in St. Catharines, who spearheaded the work, said more recent research, yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, makes an even more intriguing finding. In that study, players only watched a videotape of a game they won on home ice, but experienced a similar spike in testosterone.
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