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...

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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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...

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...

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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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...

Ohio State professors like me have watched in horror as the symbol of American scientific might has been thrown to, well, the DOGE.

Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Venting when angry seems sensible.

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.