Open Peer Commentary Mazur & Booth: Testosterone and dominance
Prenatal testosterone exposure, left-handedness, and high school delinquency
Stanley Coren a1 a1 Psychology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
scoren@psych.ubc.ca
Abstract
Prenatal exposure to high levels of testosterone may lead to
increased probability of left-handedness. Extrapolating from arguments
by Mazur & Booth leads to a prediction of increased incidence of
antisocial behavior among left-handers. Six hundred ninety-four males
were tested for seven indicators of delinquency in high school.
Left-handers were more likely to display such behaviors, providing
indirect evidence for the hypothesized behavioral effects of
testosterone.
