Title: Some Maddening Facts About Aggression
1Some Maddening Facts About Aggression
- Lincoln Garfield
McKinley Kennedy
2Some Maddening Facts About Aggression
Jackson T. Roosevelt
F. Roosevelt
Truman Ford
Reagan
3Eye For An Eye New Application For An Old Rule?
?
African Embassies Afghan Camps
WTC 08-07-98 08
-20-98 09-11-01
4Eye For An Eye New Application For An Old Rule?
Khadafi
Lockerbie 1986
1988
5Eye For An Eye New Application For An Old Rule?
?
6Domestic Violence
How often does it occur ?
7Nuclear War
How many times must you be able to destroy all
life on Earth?
8The Most Destructive War
Nanking Stalingrad
Normandy
World War II-55 or 130 Million Deaths
9Somme Offensive 1916
British and French Gain 12 Kilometers
Casualties British (420,000), French (200,000),
Germans (500,000)
10The Cost of War
Iraqi Tank Predator UAV
Stinger Missile
11Holocaust
- Six million Jews (67 of Europes population)
were exterminated
- Others Roma, mentally retarded, mentally
disturbed, 3 million Soviet POWs, homosexuals,
Jehovahs Witnesses, Communists, Socialists
12Demise of Native Americans
From Roanoke to Wounded Knee
13Historys Greatest Murderer
Mao Zedong
14Guns
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
15US Soft On Crime ?
Rank of 61 Nations Prisoners (Per 1000
Population) 1. US
6.41 2. Russia
6.33 27. Mexico
1.50 39. Canada
1.10 40. UK
1.09 44. France
.86 56. Japan
.48 59. Iceland
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16Equal 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.
17Terrorism
The response of the weak
18The 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
19Freud
He Who Is At So Many Beginnings
20Three Influences on Freud
Judaism Darwin
World War I
21Freuds 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
22Catharsis
Release of Instinctual Energy
23Konrad Lorenz and Ethology
Imprinting
On Aggression
24Aggression in Nonhuman Animals
- Often involves territoriality
- 1) Territory holders get to reproduce
- 2) Get to use resources in territory
- Sexual selection
25Aggression 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?
26Aggression 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
27Aggression 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?
28Humans 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.
29Humans 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.
30Distance 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.
31Capital 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
32Capital 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.
33Capital Punishment How To Kill?
34Capital Punishment How To Kill?
35Capital Punishment Ignorance Hypothesis
- Furman vs Georgia
- Justice Marshall
- A woman taking Social Psychology
- Stuart and Vidmar
36Capital Punishment Who Do We Execute
Of the 85 prisoners executed in 2000, 49 were wh
ite, 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
37Executions By State (2002)
State Executions State
Executions Texas 33
Ohio 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
38Executions 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 Sout
h
39Capital Punishment Phillips Archival Study
Phillips (1980) recorded reports of murders and
capital punishments publicized in London between
1858 and 1921. Immediately after a well-publicize
d 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 p
eriod of six weeks, capital punishment did not
influence the number of homicides.