Good Morning or Afternoon,
Today in my Social Psych class while covering the aggression lesson and
talking about testosterone as one of the biological influences I cited several
studies that suggest that males who have high levels of testosterone are more
likely to be imprisoned
There is a correlation between high testosterone levels and imprisonment for
violent crimes, as there is for incidence of XYY, but this is found when you
are looking at the prison population. As your student suggests, maybe others
with the same high testosterone levels or with the XYY
Title: Re: Testosterone
Linking criminal behavior and testosterone always piques the interest of students, who have no problem agreeing that it proves that testosterone causes aggression.
Their certitude usually drops a bit when I point out that higher levels of testosterone - a hormone
Dabbs, J. M., Jr., Ruback, R. B.
(1988). Saliva testosterone and personality of male college students. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 26, 244-247, found an association between
testosterone level and heterosexual engagingness.
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Karl L
