Re:Why Young Men Go to War
by kristofferR on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:54AM
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Sure, but there's a lot of people who basically claim that the massive hormonal and genetical differences between the genders have no impact on personality, behavior and interests.
Re:Why Young Men Go to War
by meheleventyone on Friday April 17, 2015 @06:05AM
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The evidence from studies into testosterone suggests that those people might actually be right or at least the hormonal differences between the sexes (and between members of the same sex who suffer hormonal imbalances for whatever reason) are not as important in defining personality, behaviour and interests as folk wisdom would hold.
Re:Why Young Men Go to War
by kristofferR on Friday April 17, 2015 @06:11AM
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I've mostly seen the opposite results, that testosterone makes a massive difference.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19175758 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338606
I'm interested in learning more, can you link to some studies?
Some interesting discussion of it here: http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/cognoculture/testosteron...
It's hard to tease out what behaviour is culturally learnt and what is caused by innate biological differences. Folk wisdom about testosterone is just one example. The downside is that these "biotruths" are used as justification for discrimination.