HORMONAL

• HORMONAL INFLUENCE ON AGGRESSION?

  testosterone
• EVALUATION?

  -inconsistent evidence

  -aggression vs dominance
• TESOSTERONE?

  • produces male characteristics
  • influences brain areas associated with aggression
  • e.g. amygdala
  • removing source reduces aggression
  • concentrations not static
  • fluctuate in response to changes in social environment
• INCONSISTENT EVIDENCE?

  • studies show positive relationship in self-reports of aggression
  • no relationship with actual violence
• AGGRESSION VS DOMINANCE?

  • Mazur
  • aggression just a way of expressing dominance
  • many other more subtle variations of dominant behaviours
  • Eisenegger et al
  • women act 'nicer'