Aggression Quotes by Robert M. Sapolsky

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Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.

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Individual differences in testosterone level predict very little about differences in aggression.

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“Did destruction of the human amygdala lessen aggression? Pretty clearly so, when violence was a reflexive, inchoate outburst preceding a seizure.”

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“aggression, violence, compassion, empathy, sympathy, competition, cooperation, altruism, envy, schadenfreude, spite, forgiveness, reconciliation, revenge, reciprocity, and (why not?) love.”

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“In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn’t that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency…

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“you asked amygdala experts what behavior their favorite brain structure brings to mind, “aggression” wouldn’t top their list. It would be fear…

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“Starting with a 1979 study, low levels of serotonin in the brain were shown to be associated with elevated levels of human…

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“Moving beyond mere correlation, if you lesion the amygdala in an animal, rates of aggression decline. The same occurs transiently when you…

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“In a typical study, higher testosterone levels would be observed in those male prisoners with higher rates of aggression. But being aggressive…

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Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala…

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The problem isn't testosterone and aggression; it's how often we reward aggression. And we do: We give medals to masters of the…

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“Finally, for the same criminal conviction, the more stereotypically Af-rican a black individual’s facial features, the longer the sentence.15 In contrast, juries view black…

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“pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing the opposite to unaggressive individuals.”

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“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

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“If we accept that there will always be sides, it’s a nontrivial to-do list item to always be on the side of angels. Distrust…

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“In other words, the more genomically complex the organism, the larger the percentage of the genome devoted to gene regulation by the environment.”

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“The subject of one experiment is a rat that receives mild electric shocks (roughly equivalent to the static shock you might get from scuffing…

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“No brain region is an island, and the formation of circuits connecting far-flung brain regions is crucial—how else can the frontal cortex use its…

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“We process emotionally salient information more rapidly and automatically, but with less accuracy. Frontal function—working memory, impulse control, executive decision making, risk assessment, and…

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“Most broadly, the PFC chooses between conflicting options—Coke or Pepsi; blurting out what you really think or restraining yourself; pulling the trigger or not.…

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