Pulling Rank: Military Rank Affects Hormone Levels and Fairness in an Allocation Experiment.

ABSTRACT: Status within social hierarchies has great effects on the lives of socially organized mammals. Its effects on human behavior and related physiology, however, is relatively little studied. The present study investigated the impact of military rank on fairness and behavior in relation to salivary cortisol (C) and testosterone (T) levels in male soldiers. For this purpose 180 members of the Austrian Armed Forces belonging to two distinct rank groups participated in two variations of a computer-based guard duty allocation experiment. The rank groups were (1) warrant officers (high rank, HR) and (2) enlisted men (low rank, LR). One soldier from each rank group participated in every experiment. At the beginning of the experiment, one participant was assigned to start standing guard and th

SUBMITTER: Siart B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5104734 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature