{"id":3334,"date":"2025-09-09T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/aggressive-acts-can-be-contagious\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:02:18","slug":"aggressive-acts-can-be-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/aggressive-acts-can-be-contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive acts can be contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-09 12:02:16<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Aggression is contagious.<BR><br \/>\nExperts have found that people who frequently witness combative behaviour are likely to partake in violence themselves &#8211; but only if they are men and know who is causing the trouble.<BR><br \/>\nScientists carried out an experiment in which male mice watched their &#8216;friends&#8217; attack intruders and recorded activity from neurons in the part of the rodent&#8217;s brains that is thought to lead to aggression.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, these neurons were only active in male mice who noticed other creatures they were familiar with acting aggressively.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Jacob Nordman, from Southern Illinois University in the US, said: &#8220;We previously found that these neurons are involved in an &#8216;aggression priming&#8217; effect, meaning that being a perpetrator of an attack increases the likelihood of attacking again.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;For example, imagine getting in an argument with a co-worker or family member.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Afterwards, your agitation and frustration make you more likely to have another outburst.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-09 12:02:16 Aggression is contagious. Experts have found that people who frequently witness combative behaviour are likely to partake in violence themselves &#8211; but only if they are men and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}