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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
Look at the men and womens prisons. It's been proven through research, that the most violent inmates have higher levels of testosterone than their less violent peers. Scientist hypothesize that this violence is just one manifestation of the more biologically and reproductively goal of dominance. I think testosterone is generated to prepare the body to respond to competition and challenges to a man/woman's status, and any stimulus or event that signals either of these things can trigger an increase in testosterone levels, which can turn into violence and certainly dominance.
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While this is a common train of thought, you have to remember that we can't test the entire population. It's entirely possible that the prisons have a completely average level of testosterone. We haven't really done the research to prove it.
srmom: I agree that athletes are certainly not more violent than non-athletes, in my experience.
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