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Aggressiveness and dominance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Ulrich Mueller
Ulrich Mueller
Affiliation:
Institute of Medical Sociology and Social Medicine, Medical School, University of Marburg, D-35033 Marburg, [email protected] www.med.uni.marburg.de.medsozio
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Abstract

Aggressiveness is a vital component of dominating behavior. We must distinguish adaptive from nonadaptive aggression and must control for skills, intelligence, appropriate context variables, and – most important – whether the aggression displayed was actually suitable for improving a subject's social status. If we do, we may find a consistent positive correlation between adaptive aggressiveness and testosterone.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 381 - 382
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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