Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Biological Aggression
- Neural
- dopamine
- increase maybe=aggression
- may be rewarding
- so seek out aggressive encounters
- produces dopamine
- difficult to establish link
- dopamine antagonists reduce dopamine
- reduce aggressive behaviour
- turn off dopamine in mice
- seratonin
- decrease=aggression
- dexfenfluramine depletes
- seratonin metabolism
- not levels
- increaced receptors
- more violent suicide
- low amounts of waste product in aggressive people
- rat fight every day for 10 days
- Ferrari et al
- Hormonal
- tesosterone
- dominance link
- makes aggression more likely
- inconsistant evidence
- challenge hypothesis
- testosterone rises in social situations
- +in older people
- 208 men
- enhance vigor and energy
- gender bias
- Book et al
- meta analysis
- no sd between violent and non violent offenders
- cortisol
- lower levels=highter levels of aggression
- violent offenders
- may inhibit aggression
- inconsistant evidence
- Genetic
- MAOA
- warrior gene
- breaks down serotonin and dopamine
- Brunner
- men with defect gene
- family history of aggression
- tested urine
- lots of neurotransmitter
- not much MAOA waste
- environmental factors?
- twin+adoption studys
- feelings of abandonment
- + offender treatment
- 40%
- difficult to seporate nature and nurture
- MZ twins
- gene and environment interaction
- 87% MZ
- treated as one
- 72% DZ
- measure antisocial behaviour
- not aggression
- self report