The role of testosterone in value-based decision making

INTERVENTION: Participants will receive either 0.5 mg testosterone or a placebo dose by sublingual administration and will perform several computerized tasks and complete several self‐report questionnaires. The total duration of the experiment will be 6 hours and 30 minutes, including a 3.5 hours waiting period between drug administration and behavioral testing and 2 hours of experimental tasks. Furthermore, participants will provide 5 saliva samples in total to measure testosterone and cortisol levels. CONDITION: Psychological problems, Decision‐making, Testosteron ; ; PRIMARY OUTCOME: ‐ Behavioral performance on computerized tasks assessing choice behavior and their underlying psychological mechanisms in contexts including risky choice, intertemporal choice, and reward‐history and social learning in reinforcement‐based decision making SECONDARY OUTCOME: ‐ Salivary cortisol and testosterone hormone levels ; ; ‐ Subjective measurements on self‐report questionnaires ; INCLUSION CRITERIA: ‐ Healthy female volunteers between 18 and 35 years of age ‐ Use of single‐phase oral contraception with testing only during the 3‐week period they take these contraceptives, and not during menstruation (to control for the possible effect of hormonal changes related to the menstrual cycle)