Correlation Between Hostile Conduct And The Response Of Honking A Car 's Horn

Many aggressive driving traits occur because someone isn't carefully paying attention to the road. As a result, they are surprised when driving conditions change, get afraid, and fly into a "flight or flight" mode, where everyone is an enemy.

The chapter defines an aggressive action as intentional behavior aimed at causing either physical or psychological pain. More recently, anger violence, and aggression has become part of our day-to-day lives. But what are the causes to this increase of human aggression? Why are humans becoming more numb to others pain and insensitive to their feelings? It’s chilling to see how the world around us can affect our state of mind.

The articles written by Anderson, Baron, Cohn, Defronzo, and Falk, all present evidence depicting a correlation between weather and aggressive criminal activity. Each article poses various studies and research to support this correlation; these studies have been conducted on the field, using historical data, and in an experimental setting. The number of studies done on the temperature-aggression hypothesis and their respective results provide indication that there is something linking uncomfortable heat to greater instances of aggressive behavior. The authors seem to agree that while there is a correlation that weather is not the sole factor in the equation creating these fluctuations in crime levels. Through many of the studies, the month

Aggression is a natural part of human behavior, and can even be adaptive in certain situations. However, when aggression manifests itself in violent behaviors, it becomes problematic. Patterns of aggression change throughout childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, and these changes usually differ between males and females (Loeber, 1997). Physical aggression is typically greatest early in life and decreases during adolescence, whereas more serious violence tends to increase with age, particularly during adolescence (Loeber, 1997). Despite the changes that occur in aggressive tendencies throughout childhood and adolescence, aggression is seen as a very stable trait, almost as stable as

The present study examines the weapons effect while driving a motor vehicle. In order to carry out this experiment, the researchers used a driving simulator to assess driving habits while either a gun or a tennis racket was placed in the passenger seat. Previous research has shown that the weapons effect produced more aggression. Although this study provides further evidence that the presence of a gun can make individuals, specifically drivers, more aggressive, the research did not produce significant evidence. In addition, the research found confounding variables that were not discussed in this particular article. Lastly, participants may have been put in situations that may not be realistic. There have been many research studies that supports the weapon effect in naturalistic settings involving motor vehicles (Turner, Layton, and Simmons, 1975). However, I do not believe this study provides enough significant evidence.

The purpose of this research is to delve into what aggression truly is, and what it means. This paper will seek to answer, the question of aggression being a byproduct of anger and thereby a negative emotion or if aggression is an impulse derived from survival instincts. For the intent of this paper, the definition of aggression that will be used throughout this work is derived from that article by Ben Karpman titled "Aggression", published in the 1950 October edition of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. "Aggression … is the expenditure of energy in order to secure what is needed from the environment" (Karpman 697). While this definition was established quite a long time ago it is a staple of the psychology community and the work of

Prior to this study, no other research had studied the genetic and environmental influences on reactive and proactive aggression. The purpose of this study was to explain how much genes and (shared and non-shared) environmental factors each contribute to aggression, specifically proactive and reactive. Once a positive correlation between the two types of aggression was determined, a “sub-purpose” was to find out if any correlation was due to another common factor, such as physical aggression. And, which factors are unique to proactive aggression and which are unique to reactive aggression.

Certain people with hostile and aggrevise characteristics can lead to poor physical health. For example people who are Hostile are put people at greater risk than a person is calm and mellow. People who to tend to be hostile also have more negative emotions about other people and the world around them. They have less patience and more anger. The transactional model of stress and coping is form of evaluating the process of dealing with stress. A person with an aggressive behavior may not take the time to go through each level of appraisal, which can lead to the use of anger and aggression to solve problems. If people who are aggressive or hostile may not have the coping strategies. If they did they can through primary appraisal where they can

Crimes are actively taking place each and every day. But why so many? What is the cause of so many people’s negative behavior? Psychologist have done some research as to what causes aggressive violence and behavior. A lot of results concluded that the warmer the weather is outside, the more positive it was for crimes to take place. Though the correlation is positive, other factors pay partake in why someone is acting upon a crime such as economic statuses, seasons, and personal issues going in their lives. Someone could be robbing a store or bank but may not be doing it to seem tough, but because they or their family are in need and they are trying to provide for them (Cohn 1990).

Insensible, aggressive acts happen on the road every day. From horns blaring at bad drivers to newspapers headlines sharing the gruesome stories of someone being run off the road, road rage is getting worse every year.

Comparatively, Deffenbacher, Filetti, Richards, Lynch, & Oetting (2003) examined participants who had risk profiles of high anger drivers (HP), who self-identified their anger behind the wheel as a personal problem. HP drivers were compared with low anger drivers (LNP) who self-reported not having a personal problem with driving anger. This research also identified another potentially important group of angry drivers. This group reported just as much anger behind the wheel as did HP drivers but did not identify driving anger as a personal problem (HNP). This group is important to take into consideration because HNP drivers identified the adaptive behaviors that minimize aggression problems- providing behaviors and processes that helped intervention for HP drivers.

Physical assault and aggression is the second leading cause of death among 14 to 17 year olds, next to vehicular accidents (Loeber). But why are humans so aggressive in the first place? There are two sides of the debate: Nature, and Nurture. Some say that it’s human nature, genetics that cause most behaviors, while others say that we act as we learned during childhood. This argument applies to aggression as well. Aggression is mainly caused by things during childhood and adolescence where people learn from various sources about aggression, although, human psychology plays a slight factor.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) feels that the new Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate will help address harassment or coercion of drivers by motor carriers to operate beyond their regulated hours.

Almost every day you hear of another incident involving an aggressive driver. Speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, following too closely, yelling and gesturing are actions that characterize the aggressive driver.

For males and females, there is substantial evidence for environmental factors effecting aggressive behavior, particularly factors in the home, such as parental attitudes, parental discipline, role models and television violence.