Questions tagged [aggression]
For questions relating to behaviors which intentionally harm or cause discomfort for other people.
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Is the ability to inflict violence effectively strongly inversely correlated with ability to make moral judgements?
Correct me if I understand Kevin Dutton incorrectly. (I only base the below understanding on some media interviews and his website; I still have to read his books).
Let me attempt to summarize what he ...
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How would human consciousness react to absence of violence stimuli?
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Survival on this planet, inherently involves violence and so do human instincts for establishing social hierarchies (reference: Social dominance theory). Virtually any human being faces ...
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Are homosexuals more prone to violence?
A wiki entry on Conservapedia on "Homosexuality and murders" states:
Dr. Eckert wrote regarding homosexual murders the following: "Equally high is the number of homicides, many ...
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Do we still not know whether violent video games negatively affect players?
As per the answer to the 2018 question on this site about the same topic, we did not know whether there was a causal link between exposure to violent video games and aggressive behavior because the ...
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Adept noticing of microexpressions by autistic people
A recent conversation article argued that microexpressions may be picked up at a high rate by a subset of people with autism.
Usually, autistic people are thought to be unable or inadept at social ...
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Scientific basis for the existence of microaggression
Microaggression has been used in the articles and has become more commonplace in the public discourse.
I remember reading articles proposing existence of microaggressions but have not seen any ...
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What is the basis of the belief that modern psychology demonstrates that words themselves can be hurtful and verbal aggression should be wed out?
I'm sorry for the length of this question, but to ask it I'll need to refer to two concepts.
Firstly, we see the escalating trend to weed out any and all examples of even very minor negativity or ...
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What genetic polymorphisms are linked to aggression or violence?
Anecdotally, there are reports of varenicline causing agression, but larger studies tended towards the finding of no effect over controls.
This got me into thinking about possible genetic ...
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Is there a named psychological condition for people who find every bad thing to be someone's "fault?" [closed]
Suppose person X is looking for something he has lost. Instead of thinking he left it somewhere, he is convinced that person Y has taken it. X is so convinced of this that he will not even look for ...
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are serotonin levels higher or lower in dominant vs. non-dominant primates and humans?
On page 242 of The Moral Animal, Robert Wright states that
In vervet monkey societies, dominant males have more of the neurotransmitter serotonin than do their subordinates. And one study found ...
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Are there reliable ways to distinguish anger from fear, be it through body, mind, internally, externally?
I've read about some of the differences, but they may be opinions not supported by best scientific evidence.
I think the limbic system, in particular amygdala and hippocampus would be activated in ...
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How does aggression transferring work neurologically?
Psychologist often prefict phenomena before they are scientifically observed. For example they have known for a long time that if you don't think about something for some time, you forget it. This can ...
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Do antidepressants reduce displays of anger prevalent in those diagnosed with ADHD?
According to Wikipedia and WebMD , difficulties in managing anger are more prevalent in children with ADHD.
Why are antidepressants used in treating symptoms of ADHD?
Is this due to a relationship ...
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Are polytheistic society more peaceful than monotheistic ones? [closed]
News last day have brought some thoughts in my mind, if a religion is a good choice for peace and when yes which one. My conclusion was at this step, that maybe polytheistic religions are more ...
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What are the pros and cons of the hot sauce paradigm to measure aggression?
The hot sauce paradigm is a way to measure aggressive behavior in the lab. Participants are asked to give a portion of hot sauce to another person (who they know hates hot sauce) and who will have to ...
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Which personality traits cause "non-cruelty"?
Human behavior towards other living beings can be classified into three categories:
altruistic: actively caring for the well-being of others
cruel: deliberately inflicting pain and suffering
neutral: ...
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From a psychosocial standpoint, how is violence different from aggression?
I recently watch Steven Pinker's video on violence and figured out that I don't understand the difference between violence and aggression.
According to Wikipedia aggression is:
Aggression, in its ...
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Sadistic personality disorder, psychopathy and correlation with violence
Going through some article, it seems the differences between the descriptions for sadistic personality disorder and psychopathy is minimal, if at all existent. In the first article it appears the ...
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