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-'''Testosterone''' is a steroid and male sex hormone.  It plays a role in increased aggression, criminality, and competitive behaviour.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160109111144/http://www.homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/faculty/josephs/pdf_documents/Arch_Chall_NBR.pdf</ref>  Many people associate testosterone with male sex drive, however increased testosterone shows no relation to increased male sexual desire.<ref>https://psyarxiv.com/42t6e/</ref>
+'''Testosterone''' is a steroid and male sex hormone (androgen).  It plays a role in increased aggression, criminality, and competitive behaviour.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160109111144/http://www.homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/faculty/josephs/pdf_documents/Arch_Chall_NBR.pdf</ref>
+Many people associate testosterone with male sex drive, however increased testosterone shows no relation to increased male sexual desire (in the absence of high cortisol levels). This provides support of the dual hormone hypothesis where it is said some effects of testosterone become potentiated in the presence of lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and suppressed when higher levels of this hormone are present.<ref>https://psyarxiv.com/42t6e/</ref>
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