"You know how aggressive you felt through the ball, and you try to get the same aggressive feeling so you don't get scared and not swing through like you want to," Hedblom said.
"I would have probably been in prison, or still in a psychiatric hospital, if it hadn't been that art helped me to get out all of my very deeply aggressive feeling toward my parents, toward society".
If the the rear end higher than the front end and the fur is standing up, or the dog bares its teeth, these are generally signs that the animal is aggressive, feeling threatened, and may attack.
The Child Rating of Aggression (CRA) is a self-report version of the Teacher Rating scale for Aggression [ 45], which consists of 21 items referring to aggressive feelings and behaviors of children: 6 items reflect reactive aggression (e.g., "I get angry for no reason"), 10 items represent proactive aggression (e.g., "I am mean"), whereas 5 items can not be classified in these two categories.
Similar mechanisms operate today when, at a nightclub or theatre, audiences listen to satirical attacks on political figures or on issues such as racial discrimination, identify with the satirist, laugh at his wit, and thereby discharge their own aggressive feelings.
Aggressive feelings are lessened by a display called "facing away," in which one or both birds, with neck stretched up, abruptly turn the head to the side away from the other bird.
At one point in the 1967 spy spoof "The President's Analyst," the psychiatrist portrayed by James Coburn marvels at the psychological benefits of being a secret agent: "You can vent your aggressive feelings by actually killing people!" Hockey players can't go quite that far, but they can whack, body-block and generally pummel their opponents in the melees that arise in the course of games.
Previous research has shown that violent video game exposure increases aggressive thoughts, aggressive feelings, aggressive behavior and physiological arousal.
However, it is unclear whether vengeful phantasies can be particularly helpful in giving back feelings of power and control, or whether they rather increase aggressive feelings, with potentially harmful effects.
Most experimental studies show that compared to other types of media, violent sports games [PDF], or violent movies [PDF], pretending to hurt people increases aggressive feelings, which is a reliable precursor to real-world violence.
Aggressive feelings towards the teenager and his/her unilateral decision to end their relationship are likely to encourage feelings of guilt.
