Guns, hot sauce and testosterone a spicy mix
In 2006, researchers at Knox College in Illinois performed a study on college men ages 18 to 22. Here’s how the study abstract reads:
“We tested whether interacting with a gun increased testosterone levels and later aggressive behavior. Thirty male college students provided a saliva sample (for testosterone assay), interacted with either a gun or a children’s toy for 15 min, and then provided another saliva sample. Next, subjects added as much hot sauce as they wanted to a cup of water they believed another subject would have to drink. Males who interacted with the gun showed significantly greater increases in testosterone and added more hot sauce to the water than did those who interacted with the children’s toy.”
The men were told that they were being studied to determine whether paying close attention to a task altered their later sensitivity to taste. They were tested for initial testosterone levels, and half were then asked to dismantle and reassemble the old “Mousetrap” game, writing a set of instructions on how to do so.
Desert Eagle handgun
The other half were asked to do the same with a pellet pistol, an exact replica in size and weight of a Desert Eagle handgun. Finally, after being tested again for testosterone, they were given a glass of water and bottle of hot sauce and asked to prepare a “sample” for the next study subject.
According to a description of the study at WebMD:
This hot-sauce trick has been used before. The more aggressive a man is feeling, the more hot sauce he tends to put in the next guy’s drink.
Sure enough, testosterone went up about 100 times more in the men who handled the gun than in the men who handled the children’s toy. And the gun handlers put three times more hot sauce in the water — on average, about a half ounce — than the toy handlers.
The more a man’s testosterone went up after gun handling, the more hot sauce he put in the water.
And since a story like this just wouldn’t be the same without a chart:
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barking frog
January 17th, 2013
6:15 pm
Fred, josef
I don’t know what they use but the wasabi off the shelf in the
grocery store tastes like the wasabi I had in japan but it
wasn’t in a high end restaurant.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 17th, 2013
6:16 pm
Corbin
here ya go just for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz9AEJYCKrg
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:16 pm
Soothsayer
January 17th, 2013
6:03 pm
Do you really think THIS is worth $350 million?
Wait, let me see that again!
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You might but he didn’t. Familiarity breeds contempt. Mutt Lange got tired of Shania Twain……..
http://www.watt-up.com/j_gallery/Shania_Twain_3/slides/shania_twain%20%28211%29.html
Soothsayer
January 17th, 2013
6:16 pm
Now what would a hot babe like this see in a nebbish like Tiger Woods?
LoganvilleGuy
January 17th, 2013
6:17 pm
The study can be directly read here:
http://faculty.knox.edu/fmcandre/guns-testo-aggress.pdf
Who participated? 18-22 year old college age kids.
The sample size? 30 people.
This is not something that I would quote as definitive for many reasons including the age of participants and the amount of people involved.
barking frog
January 17th, 2013
6:20 pm
Soothsayer
If Tiger can keep it zipped he gets all his stuff back including
his kids….
Doggone/GA
January 17th, 2013
6:20 pm
“This is not something that I would quote as definitive”
It isn’t meant to be definiitive. But it is indicative.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
January 17th, 2013
6:20 pm
josef
January 17th, 2013
5:55 pm
My gun is an antique…if I used it in a crime, I could only be charged with assault with a dead weapon…
josef
January 17th, 2013
6:21 pm
GRANNY G
Just got some pix of the snow in Jackson…made me homesick…nothing quite like it when it snows there…
Soothsayer
January 17th, 2013
6:21 pm
frog: obviously, he’s willing to put his money where his pecker is.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
January 17th, 2013
6:22 pm
Common Sense isn’t very Common
January 17th, 2013
6:16 pm
FarTrain
January 17th, 2013
6:23 pm
You have just given Miranda Lambert (of Gunpowder and Lead fame) the title to her next new country song. Bet she’s busy writing it right now. “GUNS, HOT SAUCE, AND TESTOSTERONE”. Blake Shelton is a lucky man!
barking frog
January 17th, 2013
6:25 pm
soothsayer
yep. heavy bettor..
DownInAlbany
January 17th, 2013
6:25 pm
Dang, Jay must get paid by the comment. If so, he’s hit the motherlode with the gun debate. Over 5,000 comments on 5 blogs, not including this one!
josef
January 17th, 2013
6:27 pm
CORBIN
Thass funny!
FROG
It’s hard to describe what the difference is, the real wasabi has the same “bite,” but it’s more a more subtle flavor with more “layers…”
Doggone/GA
January 17th, 2013
6:28 pm
“Over 5,000 comments on 5 blogs, not including this one! ”
And I’m SURE he appreciates your contribution to the total
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:28 pm
DownInAlbany
January 17th, 2013
6:25 pm
Dang, Jay must get paid by the comment. If so, he’s hit the motherlode with the gun debate. Over 5,000 comments on 5 blogs, not including this one!
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Hell yeah, that’s more than the liar Kyle gets in 3 months……..
See? Telling the truth, not letting Jay rejects run your blog, and good writing pays off.
getalife
January 17th, 2013
6:28 pm
The twins are hotter than Tiger’s mistresses so I hope that 350 mil covers both of them.
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:30 pm
LoganvilleGuy
January 17th, 2013
6:17 pm
The study can be directly read here:
http://faculty.knox.edu/fmcandre/guns-testo-aggress.pdf
Who participated? 18-22 year old college age kids.
The sample size? 30 people.
This is not something that I would quote as definitive for many reasons including the age of participants and the amount of people involved.
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Really? Well you are one of about 3 who are taking this thread seriously so you drive on Airborne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqd89_veabo
barking frog
January 17th, 2013
6:31 pm
josef
guess I’ve never had true wasabi….but I like the green stuff
they call wasabi….
Jack ®
January 17th, 2013
6:32 pm
I don’t really think there’s a reliable way to measure testosterone when a fella is 22. Maybe at 52 or 62, but not 22.
F. Sinkwich
January 17th, 2013
6:33 pm
Speaking of testosterone, anybody following this bizarre story about star Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o?
“According to media accounts that surrounded Te’o this season, his purported girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, died of leukemia in September. But on Wednesday, the website Deadspin.com posted a lengthy story saying there was no evidence that she ever existed.”
This guy was runner-up for the Heisman trophy, something I know a lot about. I’ve done some probing, and here’s the real story, according to a confidential source.
Te’o is a squish (not that there’s anything wrong with that). He grew weary of his teammates asking him why he didn’t ever avail himself of all the sorority sisters, cheerleaders, and campus hotties lined up at his door wanting to boink.
So he made up a story about a pretend female friend so he and Brucie could stay on the down-low.
Remember, you heard it here first.
DownInAlbany
January 17th, 2013
6:33 pm
I guess I need to hold my guns a little more often. In my middle age, I’ve had to resort to shots and gel to get my testosterone levels up. Might save me a chunk of change!
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:33 pm
barking frog
January 17th, 2013
6:20 pm
Soothsayer
If Tiger can keep it zipped he gets all his stuff back including
his kids….
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If he could keep it zipped he wouldn’t have been in this mess in the first place. Either you have honor or you don’t. He doesn’t. She is smarter than he is, he’s about to lose what little he has left.
And I don’t feel a bit sorry for the cheating SOB.
getalife
January 17th, 2013
6:35 pm
“something I know a lot about.”
Do tell filky.
TBS
January 17th, 2013
6:36 pm
Sink
Actually sports radio was talking about that very thing this morning………….
So maybe you were the 1000th, but who is counting
Native Atlanta
January 17th, 2013
6:36 pm
So…I have a simple question….why does this “Georgia” person think everyone at the AJC is blogging on Jay’s blog?
josef
January 17th, 2013
6:37 pm
FROG
I like the green stuff, too…I have a Japanese niece who introduced me to the real stuff…like Fred says, hard to find and expensive as hell…
TBS
January 17th, 2013
6:38 pm
get
Is Sink talking about the Heisman or being on the “down low”?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 17th, 2013
6:39 pm
Fred:
“Because they like hot sauce?”
Yep ………. it was the only way we could eat those C-rations for a year !!
josef
January 17th, 2013
6:40 pm
Sinkwitch
What’s a squish?
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:40 pm
F. Sinkwich
January 17th, 2013
6:33 pm
Speaking of testosterone, anybody following this bizarre story about star Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o?
“According to media accounts that surrounded Te’o this season, his purported girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, died of leukemia in September. But on Wednesday, the website Deadspin.com posted a lengthy story saying there was no evidence that she ever existed.”
This guy was runner-up for the Heisman trophy, something I know a lot about. I’ve done some probing, and here’s the real story, according to a confidential source.
Te’o is a squish (not that there’s anything wrong with that). He grew weary of his teammates asking him why he didn’t ever avail himself of all the sorority sisters, cheerleaders, and campus hotties lined up at his door wanting to boink.
So he made up a story about a pretend female friend so he and Brucie could stay on the down-low.
Remember, you heard it here first.
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Naw, once again you are late. I heard it yesterday.
It IS a weird story. Did you see where the dude from the Arizona Cardinals says he know the girl? It just keeps getting weirder and weirder………. Kind of like the Republican party………
barking frog
January 17th, 2013
6:40 pm
Fred ™
with high testosterone and little honor, I can empathize with
tiger’s inability to pass up the goodies gifted on the golf tours
and I don’t blame him for trying to recoup his losses…
moonbat betty
January 17th, 2013
6:41 pm
What is the point of this article?
I suppose the V8 Volvo should be banned as well.
josef
January 17th, 2013
6:42 pm
SCOUT
That c ration one…my brother’s care packages always included bottles of the hot stuff…
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:42 pm
I just got an email titled: WELCOME TO AIDS…………
LOL it threw me for a second then I remembered I signed up for this course:
https://www.coursera.org/course/aids
indigo
January 17th, 2013
6:42 pm
Peace
Women abort every day.
It’s called miscarriage.
Would one of those do for your photo?
barking frog
January 17th, 2013
6:45 pm
Who gives a spit about lance Armstrong ?
barking frog
January 17th, 2013
6:47 pm
moonbat betty
I suppose the V8 Volvo should be banned as well.
…………………………………………….
only if it is loaded.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 17th, 2013
6:47 pm
Sink: I read that the poor guy was duped by some scammers.
indigo
January 17th, 2013
6:48 pm
pogo – 5:43
Thing is, when seeing long lines of people buying guns is recent days, they’re all white men.
Jay
January 17th, 2013
6:49 pm
I don’t know. I’m not aware of Volvo’s affecting testosterone output. Other Swedish exports, yes. Volvos not so much.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 17th, 2013
6:50 pm
Thing is, when seeing long lines of people buying guns is recent days, they’re all white men.
Wrong color or wrong gender for you?
Jm
January 17th, 2013
6:51 pm
Speaking of racist epithets
Did you guys see the CEO of Chrysler said he doesn’t like American engines, and would only use “wop” engines in new cars, specifically the Aldo Romeo…
Kind of funny, even if wrong
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 17th, 2013
6:52 pm
If he could keep it zipped he wouldn’t have been in this mess in the first place. Either you have honor or you don’t. He doesn’t. She is smarter than he is, he’s about to lose what little he has left.
And I don’t feel a bit sorry for the cheating SOB.
WORD!
getalife
January 17th, 2013
6:53 pm
jm,
wop?
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:53 pm
indigo
January 17th, 2013
6:48 pm
pogo – 5:43
Thing is, when seeing long lines of people buying guns is recent days, they’re all white men.
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Well duh, the stores are in white neighborhoods……… besides, how many Republicans, talkradio listeners, do YOU know that aren’t white? I don’t know any……..
F. Sinkwich
January 17th, 2013
6:55 pm
“Naw, once again you are late. I heard it yesterday.”
But since I penned it, the story now has credibility.
Jm
January 17th, 2013
6:55 pm
Getalife
His words. Not mine
getalife
January 17th, 2013
6:56 pm
It was a publicity stunt for Notre Dame in a cheating and lying society.
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:57 pm
Jm
January 17th, 2013
6:51 pm
Speaking of racist epithets
Did you guys see the CEO of Chrysler said he doesn’t like American engines, and would only use “wop” engines in new cars, specifically the Aldo Romeo…
Kind of funny, even if wrong
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I’m surprised they don’t use the Italian tires. Dago through rain, Dago through snow, and when Dago flat Dago WOP WOP WOP……………
Just damn. I wonder if anyone now adays even knows that Dago and Wop are supposed to be pejoratives………. Is Polack still a bad word?
getalife
January 17th, 2013
6:58 pm
jm,
Why did you post that?
Do you hate Italians?
Peace
January 17th, 2013
6:58 pm
Indigo: No.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 17th, 2013
6:58 pm
Well duh, the stores are in white neighborhoods……… besides, how many Republicans, talkradio listeners, do YOU know that aren’t white? I don’t know any……..
No, no, Fred. It’s either that the black guys just steal their guns or they don’t need to do any compensating, dontcha know? (Well as long as we are stereotyping.
)
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:59 pm
Why was there ever prejudice against Italian immigrants in the first place? Does anyone know? josef?
Keith
January 17th, 2013
6:59 pm
Guess the woman with her kids hiding in the closet that killed the intruder owned a gun to compensate for some shortcoming in her life. These anti-gun nuts are completely nuts.
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 17th, 2013
7:00 pm
At least the American gun-owning male can still rustle up a little testotorone.
.
Obama supporting progressive males have their testorterone hanging up on the kitchen wall……..and can’t even remember what it even felt like…(listening to obama and a potential tax increase is the only thing that comes close…..to these sad emasculated 21th century metro-boys).
.
lol
Keith
January 17th, 2013
7:00 pm
hey jay, gotten that gunfree zone sign in your yard yet?
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
7:01 pm
Keith
January 17th, 2013
6:59 pm
Guess the woman with her kids hiding in the closet that killed the intruder owned a gun to compensate for some shortcoming in her life. These anti-gun nuts are completely nuts.
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Will you decide if you are going to be keith, Keith, or keithb please? I know it’s a hard choice what with all the voices in your head talking at once but……..
getalife
January 17th, 2013
7:02 pm
“Why was there ever prejudice against Italian immigrants in the first place?”
Because they knew we would take over their city.
josef
January 17th, 2013
7:03 pm
FRED
Depends on which language you’re speaking. Polack in Polish (polak) is the polish word for Polish…
Same thing with Yid…it’s the Yiddish word for Jew…
josef
January 17th, 2013
7:04 pm
FRED
The Yankees didn’t have many Black folks, so they had to use Italians…
The other half of your brain.
January 17th, 2013
7:05 pm
Doggone/GA
January 17th, 2013
6:28 pm
“Over 5,000 comments on 5 blogs, not including this one! ”
And I’m SURE he appreciates your contribution to the total
Lets see 5,000 divided by 30 =
josef
January 17th, 2013
7:07 pm
Interesting one of wop…it comes from guappo (handsome), and in slang can be loosely translated as “hot stuff…”
The other half of your brain.
January 17th, 2013
7:07 pm
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
6:59 pm
Why was there ever prejudice against Italian immigrants in the first place? Does anyone know? josef?
” Because we hate everybody. “
stands for decibels
January 17th, 2013
7:08 pm
“Yid” is yiddish for Jew? I guess I must’ve known that (else the word “Yiddish” / Jude Deusche wouldn’t make any sense) but… learn something new every day.
Hey josef, meant to ask–what was your New Year’s resolution? You mentioned one last night. mind sharing again?
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 17th, 2013
7:08 pm
If your testoterone doesn’t go up when handling a fantastic manufactored product that you chose to purchase then………………………………..you probably carry a man-purse.
.
just saying.
Nduka
January 17th, 2013
7:10 pm
The guys handling guns/testosterone/hot-sauce study is pretty interesting Jay.
I found myself wondering, what would the effect of the same stimulus on a female be? I know several who’d probably just skip the water altogether and go with 100% hot-sauce.
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 17th, 2013
7:10 pm
If your testoterone doesn’t go up when handling a fantastic manufactored product that you chose to purchase then………………….You shave more than just your face. You also probably exfoliate and moisturize.
.
sheesh
Matti
January 17th, 2013
7:10 pm
**sigh** Testosterone poisoning.
Testosterone is kind of like boobies. Enough is plenty. Ample endowments, when naturally occurring, can be lovely. But jacked to ridiculous levels, it’s just not that cute anymore.
getalife
January 17th, 2013
7:10 pm
We had to gain respect from the Yankees so we sold them alcohol and took over.
josef
January 17th, 2013
7:11 pm
SFD
To try to keep my personal opinions of folks to myself!
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 17th, 2013
7:12 pm
If your testoterone doesn’t go up when handling a fantastic manufactored product that you chose to purchase then………………………….You see a stylist instead of a barber, because barbers don’t do
highlights.
.
.
.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 17th, 2013
7:12 pm
josef @ 6:42
Exactly ! Especially for the “Ham & Limas” !
Headline: “Police in New York in Violation of New Gun Law”
Well, there you go !
TBS
January 17th, 2013
7:13 pm
josef
I thought wop meant “Without Papers”
stands for decibels
January 17th, 2013
7:13 pm
josef, I thought New Year’s resolutions were supposed to be realistic.
indigo
January 17th, 2013
7:14 pm
Godless – 6:50
I was answering pogo’s post, which had nothing to do with color or gender.
Do you have some sort of agenda here, since that 6:50 had nothing to do with what I posted?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 17th, 2013
7:15 pm
Jay:
That rifle you posted the photo of is a piece of crap.
It doesn’t even have a bayonet stud !
Geez !
Soothsayer
January 17th, 2013
7:15 pm
Heyward: you shouldn’t have cut those spelling classes.
stands for decibels
January 17th, 2013
7:15 pm
Anyone else read this story about the XC skiing couple who survived an avalanche?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/17/boyfriend-saves-girlfriend-life-after-is-buried-in-utah-avalanche/
I love to head way-the-hell-off the trails when given the opportunity, myself, but… well, let’s say I don’t carry a transponder, and most of the time I’m off solo, so I guess I’d be fcrewn.
TBS
January 17th, 2013
7:15 pm
josef
Not sure how true the info below is, but it wasn’t what I had previously heard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wop
Peace
January 17th, 2013
7:16 pm
Indigo: there are times that I believe you are somewhat intelligent, well-read, but other times I am concerned about your comprehension and understanding of matters that are not very complicated. Please review, if you choose to do so, the definitions of ‘abortion’ (a voluntary surgical procedure), and ‘miscarriage’, (a spontaneous abortion.) Quite a bit of difference.
indigo
January 17th, 2013
7:16 pm
Peace – 6:58 No
Why not?
Doesn’t your “God of love” know all and see all?
Doesn’t He see every miscarriage that every woman has?
And, since He does NOTHING to stop them, than must mean he has nothing against abortions.
So, why do you?
josef
January 17th, 2013
7:17 pm
getalife
Yep. Funny thing, growing up in Mississippi we had a fairly good sized Italian community going back to well before the Wah-uh. The old families were well established and socially prominent and well-respected. The immigrants during the late 1800s had a much easier go of it in assimilating and getting established. I never could quite get a handle on the prejudices against them from other areas.
josef
January 17th, 2013
7:19 pm
TBS
The “without papers” came as a take-off on the preexisting guappo one…that wiki article is fairly accurate…
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")
January 17th, 2013
7:19 pm
No doubt funded by a government grant at the behest of Pelosi, Feinstein or other democrat luminary.
Those pesky young adult males, how will you social progressives ever feminize and control them if they have access to firearms? Y’all are probably alot more concerned about this than any havoc they may wreak with the firearms.
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 17th, 2013
7:19 pm
As per a Study by University of South Caroline, Salkahatchie Branch 2010 ………..Styling Hairdryers had the same effect on Progressive Metro-boys as guns did on American Libertarian men.
(I think that study used WHOLE MILK cream in Lattes instead of hot sauce).
.
just saying
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
7:20 pm
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 17th, 2013
7:08 pm
If your testoterone doesn’t go up when handling a fantastic manufactored product that you chose to purchase then………………………………..you probably carry a man-purse.
.
just saying.
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If you ever once did what I did for a living and a weapon was merely a tool, then your testosterone wouldn’t raise anymore than it wouldif you picked up a hammer. But for you chickenhawks on the other hand…… who knows.
Uh Huh....Guns, Hot Sauce and Testosterone..YUCK!
January 17th, 2013
7:22 pm
Testosterone is a great equalizer – it turns all men into MORONS.
Fred ™
January 17th, 2013
7:23 pm
josef: Thanks. i knew where “mick” came from and why, but there was never really any prejudice against Germans or french that I know of and of course the English got a free pass………. but Italians? great food, beautiful women, a passion for life? What’s not to love?
Peace
January 17th, 2013
7:25 pm
Indigo @ 7:16.
I give up. You’ve convinced me that you are too simple and single-minded to discuss this matter with any degree of intelligence.
Yours in Christ,
God
Nduka
January 17th, 2013
7:27 pm
Testosterone also causes hair loss, which probably explains why I see so many bald guys @ the range.
josef
January 17th, 2013
7:28 pm
SFD
So far, so good!
FRED
As my Mama (a fan of all things Italian) used to say, what else can you say about a people for whom opera is folk music?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 17th, 2013
7:29 pm
Fred:
“If you ever once did what I did for a living and a weapon was merely a tool, then your testosterone wouldn’t raise anymore than it wouldif you picked up a hammer. But for you chickenhawks on the other hand…… who knows.”
Well said! 99.9% of the people on here have no idea what it takes to drop the hammer on someone.
barking frog
January 17th, 2013
7:29 pm
Heyward
by any chance does the fantastic manufactured product of yours
require inflating ?
Uh Huh....Guns, Hot Sauce and Testosterone..YUCK!
January 17th, 2013
7:30 pm
Guns, hot sauce and testosterone is a RECIPE FOR DISASTER.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 17th, 2013
7:32 pm
Some people are sheep.
Some people are wolves.
Some people are sheepdogs (with testosterone) and the sheep are usually to timid to even realize they are being protected.
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 17th, 2013
7:33 pm
The Obama Regime might actually have the dreaded “Brown Note” machine ……..but all us real Americans have to do is fly a banner plane over the Brown shirt Federales with a huge picture of an AR-15.
.
same results.
.
lol
stands for decibels
January 17th, 2013
7:34 pm
Some people are sheep.
Some people are wolves.
…some people insist on stereotyping humans into two distinct groups that feed their fantastic notions of how society oughta be…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 17th, 2013
7:35 pm
“Guns, hot sauce and testosterone is a RECIPE FOR DISASTER.”
Unless you want a police officer to protect you or a Marine to go to war for you.