Virtual Reality Relaxation for Reducing Aggression and Emotional Distress in At‐Risk Adolescents in Israeli Residential Care: A Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial Aggression and emotional distress are all too common in at-risk adolescents in closed residential institutions, which often contain restrictive conditions such as overcrowding, lack of autonomy, and ...

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Rage room or yoga class? How to beat anger – podcast Ian Sample hears from science correspondent Nicola Davis, who recently tried out a rage room as a means of channelling her fury, and from Brad Bushman, professor of mass communication and psychology a...

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What is robot abuse? A sociotechnical definition Robot abuse encompasses a range of actions enacted by users against robots that resemble aggressive actions enacted by humans against each other. Research in this area faces numerous challenges due...

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Low Power and High Psychopathy: A Toxic Combination for Psychological Aggression Power and aggression are core relational variables that share a fickle relationship. It is unclear whether high or low power relates to psychological aggression and under which circumstances. We test....

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Hands Along High Street · Common Cause # We Stand United! **THIS IS A MULTISTEP SIGN UP PROCESS!** Please read all the way to the end of this message. **NOTE** that the address given for this event (3923 N High St.) is a **PLACEHOLDER.*...

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Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science a...

An excellent article on why all Americans should care deeply about cuts to science.
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An excellent article about why "thoughts and prayers" are not enough.
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Reactions to social videos in long-tailed macaques - Animal Cognition Animals can obtain important social information by observing social interactions among conspecifics. Depending on the social content, such as familiarity with the conspecifics and the type of interact...

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Like humans, monkeys are attracted to videos showing conflict Have you ever wondered what kind of video content would most grab the attention of monkeys?A new study of long-tailed macaques suggests the monkeys seem to like some of the same kind of content that h...

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Canceled, Moving to Canada: Science Conferences Shun the U.S. Visa delays, funding cuts, and geopolitical tensions are driving scientific conferences out of the U.S. Some are relocating. Others are canceling. The As scientific groups cancel or relocate their con...

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OSU professor: We are watching what's happening to American science in horror | Opinion Ohio State professors like me have watched in horror as the symbol of American scientific might has been thrown to, well, the DOGE.

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Columbus Mothers and Others Standing Against Fascism · Indivisible Central Ohio On Saturday, May 10, join us in Columbus to say no to the bullies and billionaires who are threatening our freedoms and disappearing residents from our streets. In honor of Mother's Day weekend, and...

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Violent Media, Toxic Online Spaces, and Youth Aggression - Children and Screens

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Violence in Movies During the Past Half Century This cross-sectional study of English-language movies produced from 1970 to 2020 explores how violence reflected in dialogues has changed over time, whether the observed trends are limited to crime mo...

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Too Insensitive to Care: Alcohol Increases Human Aggression by Increasing Pain Threshold: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 0, No ja Objective: For thousands of years, people have used alcohol to reduce their sensitivity to physical and emotional pain. Previous research has shown that alcohol increases pain threshold. Previous research has also shown that pain threshold is positively associated with aggression. This research tests the novel hypothesis that the relationship between alcohol and aggression is mediated by increased pain threshold. Method: To replicate findings, two independent laboratory experiments were conducted (Experiment 1: N=543; Experiment 2: N=327). In both experiments, male and female heavy social drinkers were randomly assigned to consume either an alcohol or a placebo beverage. Next, they reported their pain level to electric shocks that increased in a stepwise manner until the level was described as “painful,” which was defined as the pain threshold level. Finally, they delivered painful electric shocks to an ostensible opponent each time they won a competitive reaction time task. Participants won half of the 34 trials (randomly determined). Shock intensity and duration levels were standardized and summed across the 34 trials to create a more comprehensive measure of aggression. Results: Participants who consumed an alcoholic beverage had a higher pain threshold level than did those who consumed a placebo beverage. The less pain participants felt themselves, the more pain they inflicted on their ostensible partner via electric shock. Results were nearly identical across both experiments. Conclusions: These findings provide novel evidence regarding one possible reason why intoxicated people behave more aggressively than sober people do. Alcohol intoxication increases aggression partially through its effect on increasing pain threshold.

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‘I don’t feel your pain’: How alcohol increases aggression Alcohol’s ability to increase people’s pain threshold is one reason that drinking also leads to more aggressive behavior, a new study suggests.Researchers found that the less pain that study participa...

Ohio State News did a press release on our new study on alcohol-related aggression.
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Speaker Series: Current — ISRA Featuring Leaders in the Research on Violence and Aggression, the International Society for Research on Aggression hosts an online speaker series that includes leading scholars in the field of violenc...

Honored to give a talk on anger management for the ISRA Speaker Series.
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Chilling out rather than blowing off steam is a better way to manage anger − new review of 154 studies reveals what works Activities such as deep breathing, muscle relaxation, yoga and meditation help people manage their anger, according to a meta-analysis of studies involving more than 10,000 participants.

Chilling out rather than blowing off steam is a better way to manage anger − new review of 154 studies reveals what works
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