Posted on 03/20/2021 2:24:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Testosterone can reduce a man’s “social brain” function and dampen his generosity, according to a new study.
The higher the testosterone level, the less neural activity occurred in the temporoparietal junction, an area in the upper human brain associated with social functions, said the researchers in a paper published in the peer-reviewed PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. Wu Yin, a lead author of the study with Shenzhen University’s school of psychology, said their discovery might help explain why some men were more selfish than others.
“There is mounting evidence suggesting that people with higher testosterone levels behave more aggressively or selfishly,” he said.
Wu and his colleagues recruited nearly 70 healthy Chinese young men for their experiment to find out if testosterone affected generosity – and how.
The participants were divided in two groups, one taking a testosterone pill and the other a placebo. The researchers then asked each participant whether he was willing to take some money (equivalent to US$20-45 (S$27-S$60), or split the money with another person.
That person could be a close family member, relative, friend, colleague or a complete stranger.
The men taking the pills were less willing to share the money with others, including strangers.
The researchers monitored the brain activity of the participants when they made the choice, and found the temporoparietal junction, or “social brain”, had less activity than the placebo group.
To the researchers’ surprise, the junction’s communication with other parts of the brain also decreased, suggesting that the impact of the hormone could be broader than previously thought.
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Liu Xun, deputy director of the Institute of Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said sex hormones were known to affect thinking and behaviour.
Men with excessive testosterone were, for instance, more likely to engage in violence, Liu said. Oxytocin, a hormone generated by mothers during childbirth, stimulated altruism, a tendency to help others, he said.
Brain involvement in these phenomena remain poorly understood. The new findings would help solve the puzzle, said Liu, who was not involved in the study.
“But the role of sex hormone must not be extrapolated too far,” he said.
Liu said traits such as selfishness were extremely complex mental activities, and they could be affected by a wide range of factors. Some were present from birth, some were environmental, some stayed for life, some changed over time.
PHOTO: Pixabay A man’s testosterone level typically declines with age, and older men often appear to be less self-centered than pubescent males, when the testosterone levels peaked, he said.
But the older man’s more consideration for others could also be a result of his increasing life experience, Liu said.
“Hormones may play an important role in a controlled laboratory experiment, but in real life many other things can be at play, sometimes we may not be able to separate one from the other,” Liu said.
On the limits of their study, Wu and colleagues said the detailed molecular changes caused by testosterone to a man’s brain remained largely unknown, and how hormones affected the generosity of women also required further study.
That has NOTHING to do with generosity. That is throwing money away. Generosity is when your helping someone
I agrew. There’s n9 context to that queston.
That damages the liver, but clean Falun Gong replacement livers have really come down in price.
One party rule is identical to rule by inbred royalty, which the Democrats are in total envy of. To bring that to the USA the rats are now flash flooding foreigners into the remaining non-socialist states.
This is absolute bunk/ Why do men who are so selfish sexually then serve their families both as bread winners and protectors?
This thinking is wrong and is meant to destroy the family unit, replacing the family with the Communist Party.
The sexual relationship between men and women is at its most precious when mutual compassion and its associated energy invests the sexual relationship. That would be impossible in this Chicom view. And if waht the Chicoms say is true,such texts involving the mutual compassionate approach to sexual relations never could have been written in antiquity, such as the Kamma Sutra itself.
The Chicoms want you to forget that sex is more than just a physical thing, but involves the energy of conception, compassion and love all rolled into one, there is a divine aspect.. The Chicoms want humans to be just another form of animal, turning men into mere dogs that go around humping passersby on the leg.
Here’s a modern , shallow rendition of the deep traditional truth the Chicoms want us to ignore:
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/sexual-health/a34425439/tantric-sex/
Testosterone has no conscience😎.
Mine always made me very generous - with my seed.
Regards,
Men who are loose with their money are also more likely to be unfaithful...
“What’s mine is mine...”
Men who have money never become loose with it if they have a balanced happy marriage for the most part, and that includes a healthy vibrant sexual relationship, with a continuing thread of romance.
Western men have searched world wide for that, in the last two decades marrying outside their race and nationality.The modern American woman is no comparative jewel in the search. She has become far too selfish and demanding for the most part, educated to be seductive one moment and a raging sexual abuse complainant the next. With this schizophrenic manifestation of the American woman, what could possibly go wrong with the American family?
In the global market place of women, Western women as witches are being consummately ignored by traditional men who are strong and unbowed by the socialist megalodons of the West.
If you find a woman who has here eyes on God, woo her, and if you catch her, don't let go. That is a rare jewel.
Like those selfish men who risked or lost their lives rushing to aid survivors on 9-11?
Eunuchs are easier to manipulate and control.
The Ottomans knew that a long time ago.
If you find a woman who has here eyes on God, woo her, and if you catch her, don’t let go. That is a rare jewel.>>>>>>>>>>>
Agreed 100% . If I was looking, I’d be somewhere in rural Alabama or rural Texas going to church every week.
My lookin’ days are past, but that doesn’t mean we can’t point the positive out to the youngsters coming along, LOL.
This is news? We knew this back in the 1960s.
After the murder of Bobby Kennedy, and the anti-violence hysteria that followed, the medical industry decided that boys were too “manly” and needed estrogen and other chemicals to combat the testosterone in their blood, turning them into more calm “girly men.”
Thank heavens I was an adult by this time.
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