Question

there is a very strong association between alcohol use and violence or aggression. what does the scientific literature on this topic suggest accounts for this relationship? noting that correlation does not necessarily imply causation, what are some ways that alcohol related vilence can be reduced?

Answer 1

Alcohol may encourage aggression or violence by disrupting normal brain function . According to the disinhibition hyposthesis on it . For example ;- alchol weakens brain mechanism that normally restrain impulsive behaviours that includes inappropriates aggression . By impairing the information processing , alcohol can also lead a person to misjudge social cues , therby overreacting to a percieved threat . Simultaneously , a narrowing of the attention that may lead to an inacurrate assessment of the future risks of acting on an immediated violent impulse .

In the research process , researchers performs many experiments ,In a typical example , as their subject administers electric shocks or other painful stimuli to an unseen opponent ostensibly as the part of a competitve task involving learing and reaction time , Unkown to the subject , the reaction of the nonexistent opponent are simulated by a computer . Subjects performs both while sober and after consuming alcohol . In many studies it found that the subjects exhibhited increased sggressiveness for example ;- by administering stronger shocks and in proportion to increasing alcohol consumption .

These all finding suggest that the alcohol may facilitate aggressive behaviour . However the subjects rarely increased their aggression unless they felt that threatened or provoked . Moreover , neither intoxicated nor teh sorber participants administered painful stimuli when nonaggressive means of communication for example a signal lamp .