Do you think that only testosterone induces the drive for power and aggressive behavior? Wrong! A new research shows that estrogen boosts power competition in women just like the male testosterone does, pointing that women have similar levels of competitiveness like men. For instance, estrogen levels boosted in power-motivated women when they were winning and collapsed when they lost, while the hormone's levels varied oppositely in women not interested in power.
Estrogen was linked to personality type as well, and the women, mostly in their 20s, were evenly divided. The higher the women were in estrogen, they higher they were in this measure of power motivation. Estrogen is very behaviorally potent and is actually a close hormonal relative to testosterone. In female mammals, estrogen has been tied to dominance, but there has been scant research examining the behavioral roles of estrogen in women, study shows.
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