Human Aggression

Human Aggression

Introduction

In today's world violence and aggression have become the major problems. Many researchers have analyzed the aggressive behaviors of human beings, how it is developed and how to mitigate its occurrence. There are people that are more likely to get aggressive than the others. Aggressive behavior is a way that leads a person towards self-destruction. Furthermore, social relationships are also affected due to aggression. Other reasons for aggressive behavior are the environment of a family, aggressive friends or unsatisfactory place in society.

Males usually get more stressed and aggressive when they do not have satisfactory education and suitable jobs. Factors such as genetic, environmental, lead to development of anti-social behavior. Media is also playing a visible role in this century in spreading violence to an extent. All forms of media such as radio, television, video games, and personal computers are all responsible for spreading violence to an extent. It has been studied that constantly watching violence and playing violent games on computers increases the chances of becoming a violent person. The present paper aims to explore what is human aggression and possible reasons for aggressive behavior among human beings.

Discussion

Aggression is in the nature of human beings. But it is important to understand that these problems need to be and can be controlled. Many researches have been conducted in fields of social sciences and behavioral sciences. It is commonly accepted that aggression is forceful or attacking behavior of humans. Sometimes is deliberately intended and sometimes it occurs naturally. When it is deliberately done then the individual doing it wants to dominate and demean others (Anger and Aggression, 2002). Aggression can be categorized as verbal or physical attack. If an attack is only in the form of verbal abuse than it is not of high level of severity. Though such attacks also affect the minds of people and sometimes even lead to psychological disorder. While physical attacks are normally done to give maximum harm. These attacks are at times of such an intense nature that it leads to murders.

Normally, men are more inclined towards aggression than women. Females get more aggressive when they experience any kind of verbal abuse or insults from their husbands or from other females. . It has been studied that females, after considering the consequences of their aggression, react less aggressively. Males become more aggressive when they experience physical attack from other males. There are different ways adopted by males to express their anger. Some people do it by drinking excessively, gambling or scuffling with others. Some people even go to an extent of murdering their enemies. Nevertheless, after showing aggressiveness many people feel regret for hurting their own close ones. This aggression is destructive not only for others but for themselves also because once they are calm they feel anguish and remorseful after such act.

Aggression is defined as an unacceptable, injurious and damageable behavior by an individual to inflict harm to others. Aggression is not extempore but many times it happens due ...