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Some Maddening Facts About Aggression

Some Maddening Facts About Aggression. Lincoln Garfield McKinley Kennedy. Some Maddening Facts About Aggression. Jackson T. Roosevelt F. Roosevelt. Truman Ford Reagan.

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Some Maddening Facts About Aggression

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  1. Some Maddening Facts About Aggression Lincoln Garfield McKinley Kennedy

  2. Some Maddening Facts About Aggression Jackson T. Roosevelt F. Roosevelt Truman Ford Reagan

  3. Eye For An Eye: New Application For An Old Rule? ? African Embassies Afghan Camps WTC 08-07-98 08-20-98 09-11-01

  4. Eye For An Eye: New Application For An Old Rule? Khadafi Lockerbie 1986 1988

  5. Eye For An Eye: New Application For An Old Rule? ?

  6. Domestic Violence How often does it occur ?

  7. Nuclear War How many times must you be able to destroy all life on Earth?

  8. The Most Destructive War Nanking Stalingrad Normandy World War II-55 or 130 Million Deaths

  9. Somme Offensive 1916 British and French Gain 12 Kilometers Casualties: British (420,000), French (200,000), Germans (500,000)

  10. The Cost of War Iraqi Tank Predator UAV Stinger Missile

  11. Holocaust • Six million Jews (67% of Europe’s population) were exterminated • Others: Roma, mentally retarded, mentally disturbed, 3 million Soviet POWs, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, Socialists

  12. Demise of Native Americans From Roanoke to Wounded Knee

  13. History’s Greatest Murderer Mao Zedong

  14. Media And Violence: High School Students Columbine Shootings

  15. Media And Violence: Terrorism Who Benefits From These Images ?

  16. The Cost Of Virulent Political Rhetoric Congresswoman Giffords

  17. Guns Canada US US/Can Murders* 2.0 7.6 3.8 x Murders with Firearms* 0.6 5.2 8.7 x Murders with Handguns* 0.3 4.6 15.0 x Murders without Firearms* 1.4 2.4 1.7 x * Per 100,000 Population

  18. US Soft On Crime ? Prisoners (Per 100000) Population US 700 Russia 635 Belize 460 South Africa 405 Mexico 145 UK 125 Egypt 120 Canada 110 Australia 110 France 75 Japan 45 India 40

  19. Equal Justice For All: Who Goes To Prison ? • Justice Department reports that one in eight black men in their 20s or early 30s were behind bars last year, compared with 1 in 63 white men. • 72-87% of those in prison are functionally illiterate. As the saying goes "If you think Education is expensive, Try ignorance"...... • In 1980, about 40,000 Americans were locked up for drugs-only offenses. Now the number is 450,000, three-fourths of them black or Latino, though drug use is no higher in those groups than among whites.

  20. Terrorism The response of the weak

  21. The Likelihood of Death Per Year in the US (Averaged Over the Last Decade) Pneumonia 1 in 4,500 Suicide 1 in 9,200 Murder 1 in 14,000 Automobile Accident 1 in 6,500 Domestic Terrorism 1 in 800,000

  22. My Dog Fozzie Is Hung Up On Paper

  23. Salem Witch Trials Young Girls And Hostility To Newcomers

  24. Holocaust Hitler And German Poverty After World War I

  25. Recent News Or Just Mental Imbalance And A Hostile Political Environment

  26. A Replay Of An Old Story Gabby Giffords

  27. Almost All Behavior Is Due To An Interaction Between The Individual And Social Environment

  28. Freud He Who Is At So Many Beginnings

  29. Three Influences on Freud Judaism Darwin World War I

  30. Freud’s Theory of Instincts • Life Instincts: Eros and libido • How the life instincts work • The Death Instincts: Thanatos • How the death instincts work • Conflict of life and death instinct

  31. Catharsis Release of Instinctual Energy

  32. Konrad Lorenz and Ethology Imprinting On Aggression

  33. Aggression in Nonhuman Animals • Often involves territoriality 1) Territory holders get to reproduce 2) Get to use resources in territory • Sexual selection

  34. Aggression in Nonhumans And Humans • Aggression in nonhumans often strengthens the species • Aggression in nonhumans often regulates population • Aggression in humans could destroy life on Earth • What went wrong?

  35. Aggression Between Wolves • How long would it take a wolf to kill another wolf? • Why do wolves seldom kill other wolves? • Aggression inhibiting signals evolve over time

  36. Aggression Between Hummingbirds • Would hummingbirds have strong or weak aggression inhibiting signals? Why? • With respect to aggression inhibiting signals are humans more like wolves or more like hummingbirds? Why?

  37. Humans Aggression Inhibiting Signals • How long would it take a human to kill another human with his or her bare hands? • Until recently humans were relatively harmless omnivores. • However, recently in our evolutionary history human tool use greatly expanded.

  38. Humans Aggression Inhibiting Signals • Humans became the master killer of the planet • Humans did not have time to evolve strong aggression inhibiting stimuli • As a result, aggression largely uncontrolled by inhibiting signals has a destructive impact on the survival of the species.

  39. Distance Aggression And Inhibiting Signals • Persons engaged in hand-to-hand combat • Humans did not have time to evolve strong aggression inhibiting stimuli • As a result, aggression largely uncontrolled by inhibiting signals has a destructive impact on the survival of the species.

  40. Capital Punishment • 74 percent of Americans surveyed say they favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder in a 2003 Gallup poll • Despite its public support capital punishment remains controversial in the US

  41. Capital Punishment • Of the 85 prisoners executed in 2000, 49 were white, of which 6 were white Hispanic; 35 were black and 1 was American Indian.  Of the 3,593 prisoners on the death rows of U.S. prisons at the end of 2000, about 55 percent were white, 43 percent were black, with all other races represented 2 percent.

  42. Capital Punishment: How To Kill?

  43. Capital Punishment: How To Kill?

  44. Capital Punishment: Ignorance Hypothesis • Furman vs Georgia • Justice Marshall • A woman taking Social Psychology • Stuart and Vidmar

  45. Capital Punishment: Who Do We Execute • Of the 85 prisoners executed in 2000, 49 were white, of which 6 were white Hispanic; 35 were black and 1 was American Indian.  • Of the 3,593 prisoners on the death rows of U.S. prisons at the end of 2000, about 55 percent were white, 43 percent were black, with all other races represented 2 percent. • Blacks were almost five times as likely as Whites to be on death row

  46. Executions By State (2002) State Executions State Executions Texas 33Ohio 3 Oklahoma 7 Alabama 2 Missouri 6 Mississippi 2 Georgia 4 North Carolina 2 Virginia 4 Louisiana 1 Florida 3 California 1 South Carolina 3 Of 71 Executions 67 (94%) Occurred in the South

  47. Executions Of Juveniles By State Since 1976 State Executions Texas 13 Virginia 3 Oklahoma 3 Georgia 1 Louisiana 1 Missouri 1 South Carolina 1 Of 23 Executions 23 (100%) Occurred in the South

  48. Capital Punishment: Phillips Archival Study • Phillips (1980) recorded reports of murders and capital punishments publicized in London between 1858 and 1921. • Immediately after a well‑publicized execution, homicides dropped about 35%. • Several weeks later homicides increased above the rate that would have been expected if no execution had taken place. • When averaged over a period of six weeks, capital punishment did not influence the number of homicides.

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