If testosterone creates aggression in men, does estrogen create aggression in women?

Question

If a guy is aggressive or hostile in his personality, you could say he has lots of testosterone. But what if a women is aggressive and just as hostile in her personality? could this be caused by having more estrogen?

Answer 1

No.

Studies on prison populations have shown that a high percentage of male convicts have high testosterone levels.  Same thing applies to female prison populations: high testosterone.  But scientists have stopped short of suggesting that high testosterone causes aggressive behaviors because correlation is not causation although clearly it may be a factor.

Answer 2

No mayyer how much testosterone you have, as long as you use your brain and have a good education, testosterone is energy,strength and activity, not aggression.

"Testosterone causes aggression" <---BS. An aggressive person will energies(testosterone) will have more energies and strength than someone who doesn't, MAYBE.

It's really not like testosterone turns you into an animal, you have to be an animal first to use your testosterone in aggressive ways.

Estrogens may cause moodiness, but no tin everyone and it's the same for females as in males.

Answer 3

No. Actually women and men both produce testosterone. Men simply produce more. Aggression is not solely caused by testosterone. It is much more complex than that. It appears that testosterone plays a role in aggression and s*x drive in both males and females. It may be that aggression in males really has more to do with competition for sexual access to females than it has to do with aggression for aggression sake. This would be a holdover from our evolutionary past.

Estrogen is actually a very complicated hormone that can cause many problems but anger and aggression is not one of them. To additionally complicate things, estrogen is only one of many female hormones that regulate the female body. It turns out that men also have estrogen, progesterone, oxytocin and the slew of other hormones that women posses, again, men have them in smaller quantities.

Endocrinology is really complex and we are always finding out new things about how we work. Testosterone can actually have some really good effects on people. Roid rage (one of the most publicized negative effects of excess testosterone) is simply a result of putting the body out of equilibrium. Any time hormones fluctuate rapidly in an organism that organism will have physiological and emotional changes as a result. That is what hormones do. It doesn't mean that normal levels of testosterone are bad.

Answer 4

estrogen does make some women fly off the handle but it's not very  common

Answer 5

There is an increasing body of evidence which demonstrates that oestregen (estrogen) can be used to regulate male aggression, as well as male diseases such as prostate cancer which are driven by male hormones such as androgen.

So, no ~ it's doubtful extra oestrogen makes women more aggressive. Aggression in women which is hormonally driven is more often related to imbalance of existing chemicals, which (interestingly) includes both testosterone and oestrogen.

Men also produce oestrogen in their bodies, but it is used differently in the male body.

Cheers :-)

Answer 6

Estrogen causes submissive behavior. The more you have, the more feminine your brain becomes.

Answer 7

Estrogen is a calming hormone.  Progesterone, another androgen made by women at the time of their cycle can cause some aggression, but not like testosterone.

Answer 8

nope, it's still testosterone.

Answer 9

Mmmmmm..... Having a backgroung in Endocrinology, I have to throw in my hat and support Deva's answer.

Answer 10

Possibly. But it could also be caused by having testosterone as well. Males have some estrogen just as females have some testosterone. There is no human alive with out them both.

Answer 11

Heck,  NO!!!,    I wish it did.

Answer 12

Well, sometimes it could be more estrogen, but science says its more testosterone in women that makes them more aggressive.  Hormones pretty much mess us all up one way or the other.