Results tagged “aggression” from 60 Second Science
Joey Seiler on February 4, 2008 2:37 PM
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My girlfriend plays video games--it's awesome. She likes to joke that somewhere inside of her is trapped the mind of a 16-year-old boy, just trying to express himself (video games, jamming on the drums, wearing awesome pageboy hats, gender studies)--it can be weird. Guess what, honey? Things just got more awkward.
A Stanford study has shown that video games activate the reward zone in men's brains more intensely than in women's, which I suppose means I'm more likely to get cancer, but learn a lot more about physics. So... it's a wash?
Continue reading 'It's official: Guys like video games (and territory) more than girls' >
Ted Alvarez on January 18, 2008 3:32 AM
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Joey Seiler on January 17, 2008 2:13 PM
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Football games do funny things to people. Everyone knows that to some degree--I remember a distinct urge to roll an SUV and light things on fire when my Texas Longhorns won the Rose Bowl in 2006--but apparently no one has studied it. Until now.
Assaults increase by about 9% when a community hosts a college game, vandalism spikes by about 18%, and DUIs increase by about 13%, reports a new working paper by Daniel I. Rees, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Denver, and Kevin T. Schnepel, a graduate student in the economics program. It's even worse when there's an upset. An upset at home brings 112% increase in assaults and a 61% increase in vandalism.
Too bad the 'Horns sucked it up this year and gave in to a few upsets. Anyone game for some petty vandalism? Continue reading 'Want to reduce crime? Stop hosting football games.' >
Corey Binns on January 15, 2008 10:30 AM
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Everyone gets a rise out of watching the 5 foot 8 receiver get jacked up by the 250 pound linebacker. Here's why 16 million viewers of Sunday Night football can't help but love watching the big hits.
The brain processes aggression as a reward, similar to the way it reacts to sex, food and drugs, according to new research.
In a series of experiments on mice, scientists discovered that mice will literally push the button willingly to introduce more aggression into their lives. Behaving just as they would for the good stuff.
"Aggression occurs among virtually all vertebrates and is necessary to get and keep important resources such as mates, territory and food,” says Craig Kennedy, professor of special education and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. “We have found that the ‘reward pathway’ in the brain becomes engaged in response to an aggressive event and that dopamine is involved.”
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