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Throughout this book, we have seen how the best-known leaders of the G6 nations throughout the last half century did at one point or another fall for the Bathsheba syndrome, and one or more of the seven temptations or deadly sins of politics as redefined here: lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, denial of (mental or physical) illness and pride. All but one of the 16 leaders selected according to these objective criteria were men. Among the others considered, there was just one other woman, who governed only little more than three months.1
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See basic texts on behavioural economics such as Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance (2005, 2e);
Hersh Shefrin’s Beyond Greed and Fear (2007),
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge (2008),
George Akerlof and Robert Shiller’s, Animal Spirits (2009), followed by Daniel Kahneman’s more recent overview of his earlier work Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011).
Coates, pp. 22–5. He mentions that the earliest work on androgen receptors was done by B.S. McEwen et al., Annual Review of Neuroscience, Vol. 2 (1979), pp. 65–112.
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van Ginneken, J. (2014). GENDER, HORMONES AND RISK — Conclusion. In: The Psychology of Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454034_9
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