The authors of Demonic Males, Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson present a thesis stating that human beings and chimpanzees both act aggressively and violently, which are common characteristic among our closest ancestors. Based on the author’s argument, human violence was inherited on to us through the process of evolution. The authors used examples based on the observations they made while studying chimpanzees. There is a resemblance between human warfare and the behavior associated with the chimpanzee. A group of chimpanzees walks quietly around the territory and then initiate an attack on the neighboring male (Wrangham, 1996, p.69).
Throughout history, violence has played a major role in our society and has been consistent in every generation. Constantly, we are hearing about violence through the media and for some people, we are witnessing the violence firsthand. Violence can be defined as the intentional use of physical force or power, vulnerable or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a community. Violence can end up in or incorporates a high chance leading to injury, death, psychological trauma, and deprivation. There are many different reasons people commit violent acts, an example of this can be self defense or anger.
Homicide, as a criminality, has a vast array of methods. Domestic homicide is a sub-class, yet it is one of the most customary categories of homicide throughout the world. This essay intends to find connections in relationships and homicidal tendencies in regards to both genders through specific traits adopted by biological backgrounds. Drawing from research entailing queries into why domestic homicide is the leading cause of manslaughter on a global scale. The characteristics of the basic psyche behind how these events occur can date back to the natural biological progression of the male and female predispositions.
Our society is responsible for aggression. Many people argue that aggressive people were born with a predisposition to perform violent acts, but that does not settle with many psychologists’ studies. Other people believe that violent people were made from exposure to aggression during childhood. Both of these perspectives represent points of a larger argument started by Francis Galton 150 years ago most commonly known as “Nature versus Nurture”. After 150 years, and the founding of a new branch of science, epigenetics, scientists now have viable proof that that nurture is more influential in the case of aggression because epigenetics show that environments are responsible for gene expression.
Hormones such as testosterone have been linked to aggressive and violent behavior and may contribute to the perpetration of sexual assault offences. While research has identified some genetic factors that may be associated with increased risk for violent behavior, it is important to recognize that genetics alone do not determine behavior. Environmental factors also play a significant role in shaping behavior. This means that while biological factors may contribute to the perpetration of sexual violence, larger societal structures must also be taken into account when examining the causes of sexually motivated
nurture argument comes up. I do not think the primary cause of violence is biological or genetic, and I believe the vast majority of males do not commit violent acts because they are capable of controlling their base instincts. Men are not violent beasts, or at the very least, most of them are not. As far as I know, nearly everyone gets violent and intrusive thoughts once in awhile, but most people can control them, they do not act upon those thoughts. This is what separates us from the psychopaths and murderers.
Stanley Milgram is a psychologist who conducted the famous Obedience experiment, which studied how far people would obey authority when it involves harming another person. Meanwhile, Konrad Lorenz is an ethologist who believes that aggressiveness is an innate emotion in humans that drive us to cause harm to others. Both of these scholars studied a common detail in their experiments and observations; why would humans harm each other?. This essay discusses the reasons why we harm other human beings, where I will focus on Milgram’s and Lorenz’s views on the subject, and argue whether they have similar or different perspectives on the issue. First, people harm others due to the presence of aggression, which is a constructive force that is
The reasons people act violently is a broad topic of study. Although many psychologists and people in general continue to speculate about what those reasons may be. One of the main reasons people are thought to act in a violent manner is that it is a symptom of how that person uses violence as “a means of coping with life 's problems” (Seifert 1). Another reason that people use violence to express their feelings could be imitating what they see going on around them. Proving this point is this statistic that, “almost all of the bullies, 97 percent, said they were also victims of bullying”.
Social learning theory will be used to examine the basis of learned behavior, specifically early exposure to violence, and how the behaviors observed by an individual may later become imitated in one’s relationships. Conflict theory will also be used to examine
In the filed of biology psychology, it is said that there are 3 areas of the brain that are mainly involved in our aggression and violence behavior, which are the hypothalamus, the frontal lobes, and the limbic system. Morley and Hall(2003) have investigated o how the human genes have an influences on their criminal behavior. In their research, they have found a positive relationship between criminal behaviors and genes. Brunner et al(1993) conducted an research on a Dutch family, the result showed that some of the family members from the Dutch family with tendency of aggressive behavior turned out to have mutation occurring in their monoamine oxidase A, a type of neurochemical in the brain. Therefore, we tell say that aggressive behavior is somehow related to human brain structure.
Anyone is able to exhibit violent characteristic given certain situations in which your vasopressin levels are increased and your serotonin levels are decreased causing you to act irrationally. Anyone could be capable of killing because anyone’s frontal lobe could be damaged, despite how smart you could be. Your frontal lobe is control of your social skills, thinking, planning, problem- solving, emotional and behavioral control. All of these things circle around nature, nurture and
In this experiment gender was looked at as factor that influenced aggression. Many people tend to see men as more aggressive than women. The findings of the research found that there is no difference in aggression between males and females. However it was found that men do use more direct aggression then women but between the two genders both use indirect aggression the same as one other. Social connections is another way to look and see what type of aggression is used in day to day life.
Brain development does not necessarily make an individual be any more violent. On the contrary, I think that the fact that their brain is not entirely developed, gives
Good Afternoon and welcome back to this week’s episode of Dr. Majumdar & Company. Today we will be exploring the Realms of Abbreviations and analysing their effects on the English language. There have been several questions from our viewers and I hope to discuss them throughout this episode…so without further ado let’s get started! Abbreviations are shortened forms of words or phrases and slang is a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, commonly seen in speech than writing. Yet slangs are becoming more and more common within students’ writing due to their long exposure to it through technology!
Esbensin, Peterson, Taylor and Freng (2010) implies that “ young people who have committed serious violent offenses have the highest level of impulsive and risk-seeking tendencies.” Moreover, extreme violent criminal activity being performed in front of youth increases the risk of them performing acts of extreme violence themselves. Because youth see those acts as acceptable so committng those violent activities make youths to become ruthless. Smith and Green (2007) assert that violent activities becoming ruthless and the perpetrators even more ruthless.
