A myth is busted: Testosterone not tied to aggression

Submitted by arindamp on Thu, 2009-12-10 05:03

Story here. Excerpt:

'A new study challenges the common belief that testosterone causes aggression in humans and proposes instead that the hormone encourages status-seeking behavior, the journal Nature reported.'

Hopefully this will break the stereotype that men are inherently violent due to their high testosterone level.

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Quoth the maven,

    “Test subjects with an artificially enhanced testosterone level generally made better, fairer offers than those who received placebos, thus reducing the risk of a rejection of their offer to a minimum.”

So the flip-side is that the normal, unaltered women made worst, less fair offers than the masculinized ones. Well, so much for the "natural empathizers" of the double-X clan.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Thu, 2009-12-10 13:28