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To: Heartlander

Oh, then there’s more:

The rise in testosterone levels during competition predicted aggression in males but not in females.[84] Subjects who interacted with hand guns and an experimental game showed rise in testosterone and aggression.[85] Natural selection might have evolved males to be more sensitive to competitive and status challenge situations and that the interacting roles of testosterone are the essential ingredient for aggressive behaviour in these situations.[86] Testosterone mediates attraction to cruel and violent cues in men by promoting extended viewing of violent stimuli.[87] Testosterone specific structural brain characteristic can predict aggressive behaviour in individuals.[88]

... men with high testosterone were significantly 27% less generous in an ultimatum game.[92] The Annual NY Academy of Sciences has also found anabolic steroid use (which increases testosterone) to be higher in teenagers, and this was associated with increased violence.[93] Studies have also found administered testosterone to increase verbal aggression and anger in some participants.[94]

A few studies indicate that the testosterone derivative estradiol (one form of estrogen) might play an important role in male aggression.[73][95][96][97] Estradiol is known to correlate with aggression in male mice.[98] Moreover, the conversion of testosterone to estradiol regulates male aggression in sparrows during breeding season.[99] Rats who were given anabolic steroids that increase testosterone were also more physically aggressive to provocation as a result of “threat sensitivity”.[100]


71 posted on 03/02/2022 10:17:36 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kevmo
Yes – but it also states:
The relationship between testosterone and aggression may also function indirectly, as it has been proposed that testosterone does not amplify tendencies towards aggression but rather amplifies whatever tendencies will allow an individual to maintain social status when challenged.

Beyond this, you appear to be acting like the only @$$#0/ on this thread – and it sure isn’t due to testosterone… maybe you should take you own advice and “focus on some more pressing concerns.”

73 posted on 03/02/2022 10:25:53 AM PST by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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