Mongo the Mutterer
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Study links guns, aggression in men
I wonder what they would have found if they put Jessica Alba in the room instead of the handgun...By BENEDICT CAREY
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Handling a gun stirs a hormonal reaction in men that primes them for aggression, new research suggests.
Psychologists at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., enrolled 30 male students in what they described as a taste study. The researchers took saliva samples from the students and measured testosterone levels.
They then seated the young men, one at a time, at a table in a bare room; on the table were pieces of paper and either the board game Mouse Trap or a large handgun. Their instructions: Take apart the game or the gun and write directions for assembly and disassembly.
Fifteen minutes later, the psychologists measured saliva testosterone again and found that the levels had spiked in men ...