The Role of Expectancy in Steroid-Related Aggression Imagine if every day was like your first and you had to relearn everything everyday. Life would be impossible and you’d get little accomplished. Our behavior is made efficient and automatic via processes that carry our experiences forward, allowing us to anticipate situations, behavioral requirements and outcomes, although […]
The Psychological Effects of Anabolic Steroids (Part 2)
Introduction Do AAS cause psychological disturbance? By and large, empirical and experimental results differ. This month we will explore one possible reason for this discrepancy. Because aggression is the most controversial, widely researched, and highlighted psychological effect associated with AAS use, it will serve to exemplify the processes whereby pre-existing psychological factors might influence the […]
The Psychological Effects of Anabolic Steroids (Part 1)
A Brief Overview and Prefatory Comments This article briefly introduces and comments on issues relevant to an appreciation of the psychological effects of anabolic/androgenic steroids (AAS). Few scientific references are included, although a more detailed discussion is planned, so you don’t get off that easily. This article should not be seen as suggesting that AAS […]
Anabolic Steroids and Aggression, Part 2: Does the Evidence Support a Causal Inference?
Findings regarding the AAS use and aggression relationship are inconsistent and vary with the nature of the study and design. Although widely accepted as fact, a review finds little, if any, strong evidence for a direct causal relationship. This may, in part, stem from confusion regarding the specific questions that are answerable by various research […]
Anabolic Steroids and Aggression, Part 1 A Review of the Evidence
The association between the use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (hereinafter referred to as “anabolic steroids” or “steroids”) and aggression (“’roid rage”) has been widely accepted in the culture in general, the mainstream media, and the resistance training subculture. This view has been bolstered by the use of anabolic steroid “induced” rage as a legal defense