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Saliva testosterone and criminal violence among women

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Testosterone levels in female inmates and female college students were found to be significantly higher with unprovoked violence and lowest with defensive violence, where inmates had reacted violently after being physically assaulted.
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 126 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Testosterone (patch).

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Principles of Neural Science

Michael P. Alexander
- 06 Jun 1986 - 
TL;DR: The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his or her own research.
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Anger Is an Approach-Related Affect: Evidence and Implications.

TL;DR: The authors review a range of evidence concerning the motivational underpinnings of anger as an affect, with particular reference to the relationship between anger and anxiety or fear, to support the view that anger relates to an appetitive or approach motivational system, whereas anxiety relates to aversive or avoidance motivational system.
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Testosterone and dominance in men.

TL;DR: An unusual data set on Air Force veterans enables this work to compare the basal and reciprocal models as explanations for the relationship between T and divorce, and discusses sociological implications of these models.
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The influence of testosterone on human aggression

TL;DR: This review assesses studies involving androgens, principally testosterone, and human aggression, and suggests that the outcome of aggressive and competitive encounters can alter testosterone levels, thus confounding interpretation of the correlational evidence.
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Vulnerability to Psychopathology: A Biosocial Model

TL;DR: Zuckerman et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a bio-social model to understand why people are vulnerable to the different variants of psychopathology, which is the focus of their new book "Vulnerability to psychopathology: A Biosocial Model Marvin Zuckerman".
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Principles of Neural Science

TL;DR: The principles of neural science as mentioned in this paper have been used in neural networks for the purpose of neural network engineering and neural networks have been applied in the field of neural networks, such as:
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Principles of Neural Science

Michael P. Alexander
- 06 Jun 1986 - 
TL;DR: The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his or her own research.
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Androgen enhances sexual motivation in females: A prospective, crossover study of sex steroid administration in the surgical menopause.

TL;DR: It was clear that exogenous androgen enhanced the intensity of sexual desire and arousal and the frequency of sexual fantasies in hysterectomized and oophorectomization women, but there was no evidence that testosterone affected physiologic response or interpersonal aspects of sexual behavior.
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A Biosocial Model of Status in Face-to-Face Primate Groups

TL;DR: It is argued that status ranks are allocated among members of a group through face-to-face interaction and that the allocation process is similar across each primate species, including humans.
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Testosterone, status, and mood in human males

TL;DR: The results suggest that when a man achieves a rise in status through his own efforts, and he has an elation of mood over the achievement, then he is likely to have a rises in testosterone.
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