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Aggression

Testosterone Equals or Equals Testosterone?
High levels of testosterone seem to encourage behavior apparently intended to dominate -- to enhance one's status over -- other people. Sometimes dominant behavior is aggressive, it is apparent intent being to inflict harm on another person, but often dominance is expressed nonaggressively. Sometimes dominant behavior takes the form of antisocial behavior, including rebellion against authority and law breaking.
One good way to see how it acts on the human body is to perform a test to see if testosterone equals or if it is the other way around. Take a measurement of testosterone several times a day; then monitor the test subject to see how ...

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if � equals testosterone.�1 He says that numerous studies have been done to figure it out; but have never been able to come to a scientific conclusion. In his essay he goes on to state his view that �Hormones seem to many to be more real, more substantive, than the ephemera of behavior, so when a correlation occurs, it must be because hormones regulate behavior, not the other way around.�2
The most reliably information has been found in numerous tests that there is no scientific evidence that links testosterone and . �Evidence documenting a relationship between t testosterone and in criminal and non criminal populations is inconclusive, with studies reporting both positive and negative findings.�3
Even though we don�t have any conclusive evidence that directly links testosterone to , that doesn�t mean they don�t affect each other. It is quite the opposite, �testosterone isn�t causing , it�s exaggerating the that is already there.�4
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1Robert Sapolsky, �The Trouble ...

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