During plenty of centuries human behavior has been widely studied by different psychologists, anthropologists and ethnologists all over the world, starting from the ancient philosophers as Herodotus and Cicerone and till now. Stimulus, impulse and motives that drive human actions and their lives were always significant, interesting and widely investigated. One of such drives are aggression and violence. But what is the basis of these terms; their roots, cause and effect on human behavior, spread in society and ways of their avoidance and prevention would be described in the next paragraphs. Being an initiation to forceful, usually hostile action against another creatures aggression and violence are characteristics of all living on the earth. It was repeatedly proved by lots of scientists and psychologists that aggression and violence are biological traits peculiar to all people and is transmitted from generation to generation.
Part of brains call hypothalamus is responsible for various instincts among which is also aggression. When certain nervous at hypothalamus are excited an animal or person becomes either aggressive and eventually attack, or it flees. Aggression is also influenced by the production of androgen hormones. But on my mind, versus to aggression violence is not a biologically inherited trait, its a hypertrophic form of aggression gained because of cruel and violating environmental conditions and negative influence. Because even though all people are prone to aggression and rude behavior, there would be quite limited group of people who would be so savage to hurt and to bring physical damages. In the process of studying of such famous psychologists as Freud, Lorenz, etc. it was revealed that man like other animals is motivated by aggressive drive which has significant survival value, but lacks internal inhibition against killing his fellow men. Lorenz determined the term aggression as a drive that energizes attack and some other behaviors, and is exhausted by performance more and more likely.
The Term Paper on Aggression and violence, nature or nurture
Aggression is a common behavior in humans. It is not necessary to regard aggressiveness in a person as a bad quality for it has been found to be necessary in animals and is a part of nature. The more aggressive animal in a species is generally more successful, powerful and gains control over food, territory and mates. Aggression is also a means of maintaining social order. Aggressiveness in this ...
Freuds studies say that every person has 3 agencies of human personality. Id- the oldest of them contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of bad, notably sex and aggression, as well as all psychic material traits inherited and present at birth. Having neither logic, nor obvious reasons aggression and violence can be caused by different factors. Aggressiveness develops either from dissatisfaction, frustration, or persistent discomfort and pain. Also aggressive behavior increases in small groups of isolated men, such as polar explorers or prisoners, as it was explained by Lorenz. Such factors as poverty, family violence, children abuse, ethnic or racial conflicts, easy access to guns and other weapons also have great impact on psychics and are the causes of violating behaviour.
Nowadays we live in quite aggressive society. Aggressive style of life, aggressive clothes, aggressive kinds of sport, all this create some kind of cult of aggressiveness. Also TV plays great role, because people spend lots of time watching it, and it greatly influences their minds. But unfortunately great part of TV programs, movies, shows contain so much violence that definitely has a negative impact on the spectator. Most of TV programs are divided on those show aggression, and those that cause it by showing the kind of life people will never achieve, thus causing dissatisfaction. While watching television people absorb so many negative information.
The Essay on Rewarded Or Punished Violent People Violence
Violence is behaving in an aggressive or abusive manner towards people or objects. Violence generally occurs as a physical response to the emotion of anger or frustration. Another common reason for violence is to gain something from the violent act. However many violent crimes occur for no gainful reason, these crimes seem to have no purpose other than to act in an aggressive manner. Violent ...
It would have been much better if the owners of TV stations, movie and TV shows producers would be more selective in their choices in order to reduce this violating impact and at least to try to make our society more sincere and kind to each other. So, if following Freuds theory about 3 agencies of human personality, along with id and super-ego, each person has its own ego persons conscious efforts to balance initiate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands and norms of society. Even though that aggression and violence are biological aspect of human behavior there are lots of ways to overcome them, to try to be more patient and understanding to the environment around us, because if people wont control their violating and evil nature our planet will turn to an ugly place full of terror..
