Why Do Guns Increase Aggressive Behavior

The goal of the guns, testosterone, and aggression research report was to test whether interacting with guns increased testosterone levels and later aggressive behaviors. The researchers used 30 male college students from the age of 18 to 22 as their subject, getting extra credit in return. To protect the results of the experiment, subjects were told they would be participating in an experiment that examined taste sensitivity in males. Since their saliva would be taken for hormone analysis, subjects were asked not to eat, drink, smoke, or brush 1 hour before testing. After sitting 6-ml of saliva into a cup their testosterone levels were tested. That will be referred to as Time 1. The subjects were split into two groups, experiment subjects and control subjects. The experimental group was exposed to a pellet gun that was identical to an automatic handgun and were instructed to handle and write about it. On the …show more content…
The first was testing the amount of testosterone in the saliva. The second was simply seeing how much hot sauce the subjects added to the water. Researcher conducting this experiment had three separate hypothesis. The first was that the subjects who interacted with the handgun would show a greater increase in testosterone from Time 1 to Time 2 than did those who interacted with the children’s toy and it was confirmed. After running test on their saliva, there was a clear increase in testosterone. The second hypothesis was also confirmed. It stated that the subjects that interacted with the handgun would add more hot sauce to the water that those who interacted with the children’s toy. The last hypothesis was that the amount of hot sauce placed in the cup would positively correlate with changes in testosterone level and it was confirmed. The test proved that the same guys who interacted with the handguns were the same to have a rise in testosterone and pour more hot sauce into the