Low Testosterone Research
This Research on Testosterone Bogus
The researchers took saliva samples from participants to measure testosterone, a hormone that has been associated with dominance motivation.
Participants then worked on a "learning task" in which one complex sequence of keypresses was followed by an angry face on the screen, another sequence was followed by a neutral face, and a third sequence was followed by no face.
Participants who were high in testosterone relative to other members of their sex learned the sequence that was followed by an angry face better than the other sequences, while participants low in testosterone did not show this learning advantage for sequences that were reinforced by an angry face.
Notably, this effect emerged more strongly in response to faces that were presented subliminally, that is, too fast to allow conscious identification. Perhaps just as noteworthy, participants were not aware of the patterns in the sequences of key presses as they learned them.
While high-testosterone participants showed better learning in response to anger faces, they were unaware of the fact that they learned anything in the first place and unaware of what kind of faces had reinforced their learning.
Michelle Wirth, the lead author of the study and now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, added: "Better learning of a task associated with anger faces indicates that the anger faces were rewarding, as in a rat that learns to press a lever in order to receive a tasty treat. In that sense, anger faces seemed to be rewarding for high-testosterone people, but aversive for low-testosterone people."
A Testosterone Study done by a women at an ultra liberal university. Need I say more? We will: The three choices of pics were dumb, and show that the researchers had an end in mind when they set up the study. High testosterone means you are not qualified to make decisions, because you are angry.
Why not "a smiling grand mother" instead of an angry face. An this is how research on low testosterone vs. high testosterone is done.
At least they did one thing right: hormones should be measured by saliva tests, not blood test. Get a new doctor if yours doesn't know this difference.