Is expressionlessness under violence? People who have been put up with a reaction by seeing a movie become aggressive

Everyone seems to be occasionally "burning offensive feelings", but it is not fatigue nor sleep deprivation, but in reality it may be related to "situations where you can force your expression to be inexhaustible" I do not.

University of Texas at AustinWhenUniversity of MinnesotaIn an experiment conducted by psychologists, "Train spotting"And Monty Python's"Life fanatics(The Meaning Of Life) "and people who were forced to look at the scenes that bring famous aversion to the movies, compared with those who saw while changing their expressions freely, immediately after a strong attack It became clear that it was supposed to show sex. The difference in aggression was not seen in subjects who slept poorly and subjects after sleeping enough.

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Professor Arthur Markman of psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin and others, soldiers of the US Army,Military academyExperiments targeting students and regular university students showed that people who were suppressed expressing their emotions with expressions or words of behavior were aggressive and belligerent. Thesis isSocial Psychological and Personality ScienceIt is published in the magazine.

This is the result of supporting the "self exhausting effect" that people tend to aggressively behave after suppressing emotions. Not only when you are forced to look at the movies without expressions, for example, on days when you restrained irritation to your boss at work, it is easier for children to shout at home after going home, for example, It is believed to be experiencing "self-exhaustion".

In the experiments, the scenes that the subjects eat while eating a large meal crest sort of "Life Rhapsody" in the restaurant while they exhaled and they eventually rupture, and the heroin addict, Mark Renton of "Trainspotting", diarrhea in a dirty public toilet After that, collect the medicine from the filth and swim the toilet water Swim in the toilet Swim in the toilet Look at the hallucination Look at the two scenes with a reputation for letting the viewer remember disgust, as it is visible at that time The subjects who were asked to appreciate without reacting, compared with aggressiveness immediately after viewing, subjects who were allowed to watch while taking reactions freely, such as changing facial expressions, keeping mouths, raising voices and so on.

In the comparison of aggression, we used a game that makes the opponent's computer sound loud and attacks (the opponent was fictitious and no one actually suffered from noise). As a result, subjects who were forced to look at the movies without expressions set the volume of the noise attacks sent to the opponent at the start of the game on average 6 to 7 (in 10 steps), whereas during the movie viewing, The subjects who were allowed to set the sound volume at the beginning of the game to 4 to 5 on average, showed that the subjects whose emotions were suppressed were aggressive and belligerent.

In addition, half of the subjects kept awake for more than 24 hours before watching movies, while half were in a state of good rest, but they were aggressive in the sleep deprived group and the sleeping group There is no difference, and it is contrary to the theory that "fatigue makes people aggressive" that has been suggested in several studies so far.

You can see the famous scene of Monty Python's "Life Rhapsody (1983)" from the following (It may be better for people before meals and meals to refrain from viewing).

YouTube - Mr Creosote (Monty Python)


The scene of the toilet of "Trainspotting (1996)" is from the following.

YouTube - '' The Worst Toilet In Scotland ''


It is often said that "it is not good to embrace emotions", but why is not it that seems to increase the possibility of becoming aggressive and violent behavior if you embrace feelings . If you laugh when you want to laugh, cry when you want to cry, and when you are surprised living with a voice that will surprise you could lead to avoiding aggressive and violent behavior that you will regret later I do not.

The result of this experiment can be applied to efforts to cope well with long working hours and stressful situations and to reduce violence, such as police officers and soldiers who want to avoid becoming aggressive beyond necessity It is expected that it is not.