Testosterone Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“Testosterone also increases confidence and optimism, while decreasing fear and anxiety.5 This explains the “winner” effect in lab animals, where winning a fight increases…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“So testosterone does subtle things to behavior. Nonetheless, this doesn’t tell us much because everything can be interpreted every which way. Testosterone increases anxiety—you…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“testosterone’s actions are contingent and amplifying, exacerbating preexisting tendencies toward aggression rather than creating aggression out of thin air.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“When testosterone rises after a challenge, it doesn't prompt aggression. Instead it prompts whatever behaviors are needed to maintain status. This changes things tremendously...…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The explains why basal levels of testosterone have little to do with subsequent aggression, and why increases in testosterone due to puberty, sexual stimulation,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“John Archer in a definitive 2006 review, “There is a weak and inconsistent association between testosterone levels and aggression in [human] adults, and ……

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Testosterone is the hormone of collaboration and competition that, whenever we compete on a team, we collaborate with our teammates. And most of us…

— Po Bronson

As for testosterone, it's gotten a bum rap. Yes, it has tons to do with aggression but it doesn't cause aggression as much as…

— Robert Sapolsky

“biosynthesis and peripheral action of testosterone,”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“testosterone increases the excitability of amygdaloid neurons, and glucocorticoids decrease excitability of prefrontal cortical neurons.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Thus, shorter refractory periods mean a higher rate of action potentials. So is testosterone causing action potentials in these neurons? No. It’s causing them…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky