Aggression

The debate over the potentially troubling effects of these massively popular games continues.

• By Tom Jacobs

You don't have to personally play violent video games to experience their negative effects.

• By Tom Jacobs

The fast and the furious and their firearms.

• By Tom Jacobs

New research finds aggressive attitudes can be shifted by recalling moments of intimate connection.

• By Tom Jacobs

Offenders with brain injuries make up a huge percentage of prison populations; they also enter the criminal justice system earlier, and stay in it longer.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Antisocial attitudes and physical strength may have the same underlying cause, new research suggests.

• By Nathan Collins

A perfect combination of fear and overconfidence produces dangerous escalations of tiny incidents. The best course of action is to allow the guy flipping you the bird to drive right past.

• By Rick Paulas

Some argue that taking parents who have committed a crime out of the family might be good for children, but the data is in. It’s not.

• By Lisa Wade

Research suggests highly skilled players who achieve a "flow state" are buffered against the games' negative psychological impact.

• By Tom Jacobs

A new study shows that boys can shun and ostracize with the best of them. We’ll have to drop our “mean girls” bias to better understand how they do it.

• By Daniel Luzer

Local police departments should reflect the communities they serve, but fixing that alone won’t curb unnecessary violence.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Wrestling with masculinity in a boxing gym.

• By Thomas Page McBee

New research confirms that exposure to the idea of alcohol heightens aggressive behavior.

• By Tom Jacobs

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

• By Avital Andrews

A brief history of the vilification of the pit bull.

• By Jake Flanagin

New research from Italy and a meta-study from Austria both connect playing violent video games with antisocial behavior.

• By Tom Jacobs

And what we might be able to do to calm it down.

• By Lauren Kirchner

The lust to kill is somewhat normal, and cruelty can have some benefits. But the researchers who are exploring those sad discoveries are also working to bust up the vicious circle that offers these insights.

• By Michael Todd

An Austrian researcher finds a link between playing violent video games and increased ethnocentrism, at least among young men.

• By Tom Jacobs

Kids who bully other kids are much more likely to abuse their partners as teens.

• By Lauren Kirchner

New research suggests playing violent video games on motion-capture technology (think Wii) does not increase one’s propensity to engage in aggressive behavior.

• By Tom Jacobs