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Multivariate modelling of testosterone-dominance associations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2004

Helmuth Nyborg*
Affiliation:
International Research Centre for Psychoneuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark http://www.psy.au.dk/ompi/ukhelmuth.html
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Abstract:

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Mazur & Booth (1998) (M&B) suggested that high testosterone (T) relates to status, dominance, and (anti-) social behaviour. However, low T also relates to status and to formal dominance. The General Trait Covariance (GTC) model predicts both relations under the assumption that high and low T modulates the genotype in ways that enforce the development of almost polar covariant patterns of body, brain, intellectual, and personality traits, irrespective of race. The precise modelling of these dose-dependent molecular body-intelligence-personality-behaviour relations requires that causes, mechanisms, and effects enjoy equal operational standing.

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