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Psychosomatic Medicine 36:469-475 (1974)
© 1974 American Psychosomatic Society

Plasma Testosterone: Correlation with Aggressive Behavior and Social Dominance in Man

JOEL EHRENKRANZ 1, EUGENE BLISS MD2, and MICHAEL H. SHEARD MD1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 34 Park Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06508
2 Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 34 Park Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06508; Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah, 50 North Medical Drive, Utah 84112

Plasma testosterone was determined in 36 male prisoners; 12 with chronic aggressive behavior, 12 socially dominant without physical aggressiveness and 12 who were not physically aggressive or socially dominant. A battery of psychological tests--the Scale of Susceptibility to Annoyances, the California Personality Inventory, the Adjective Check List, the Garabedian Index of Prison Socialization, the Lykken Measure of Anxiety, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory--were administered over the same time period. There was a significantly higher level of plasma testosterone in the aggressive group as compared with the nonaggressive group or with the other two groups combined. The socially dominant group also had a significantly higher level of testosterone than the nonaggressive group.

Submitted on November 1, 1973
Revised on April 15, 1974




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