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So , do you think that Anger is genetic or learned behaviour ?.I am talking of those who get angry a lot and it's part of their personality .
| It's a learned behaviour | 20 | |
| Ask a psychologist for who am i to judge | 3 | |
| I don't know | 7 | |
| Maybe both | 23 | |
| It's genetic | 6 | |
| Depends , each case is different | 15 | |
| Sometimes it's genetic and sometimes it's a learned behaviour | 14 | |
| It has to do with a personality disorder | 1 |
I think it's genetic but how you handle/control your anger has to be learned.
According to Albert Bandura's theory behaviours are learned and not derived through genes.In other words children learn from role models in their life.MOst probably females will relate to a female adult in their life and vice versa for males.As a result it is found that boys are more aggressive than girls as boys observed this behaviour from their father......i learnt that in Behavioural Learning Theory...Educational Psychology...
It's a little bit of both. My temper problem was a "gift" from my father but because of the environment I grew up in, and a host of other reasons, I learned to control it.
Sometimes it still makes an appearance and makes an ass out of me, but it happens only rarely and I'm quick to recover :P
We're all equipped with the tendency to become angry and violent. It's our nature, look at history and your answer will be clear.
It is the job of parents and other various role models to teach children how to handle their problems using more productive and/or peaceful coping strategies. Children don't learn it completely on their own and often they are conditioned properly, whether or not it is done by the traditional method (parents teaching them). And for people like me, who have violent parents, having good role models and a fear of punishment helps us realize and correct our behavior.
I know people who just don't have any empathy and their called "psychopaths" could there be a more offensive term for a person? I know people who mean well, but they still hang on the streets and the fact they talk about people they've killed like it's nothing doesn't make me think of them as bad people, nor do I try to understand how you just shoot somebody and go home with no worries.
I have known killers and sociopaths and they are a distinctly different people. Some killers pride themselves on killing, some of them are unattached to their victims and objectify them (their victims are nothing but objects) and some of them are truly sociopaths who have no empathy for others.
Yeah like I said one of my friends calmly say "oh yeah he did this and that to me so I just shot him and drove away" and at the same time this guys one of the most loyal and trusting people and a truly endearing human. Hence my misunderstanding of people.
Because not all killers are sociopaths, and not all sociopaths are killers. I was court order diagnosed as ASPD so i'm technically a sociopath, you don't see me shooting people. And it isn't that i have no empathy, it's that i compartmentalize empathy.
Ever wondered why serial killers try to justify their crimes? Because they do feel guilt, they just ignore it by telling themselves they're right. For if they let the full horror of what they had really become into their mind they'd kill themselves from the misery.
1 in every 100 is sociopathic, so everyone knows one....they're common as can be. Two on IIN at least.
The "iceman" is a great example, he was a sociopathic hitman, but he loved his wife and kids so much that he would be devestated to loose them. So he obviously feels empathy very strongly, but CHOOSES to ignore it when killing.
Like I said, anger and violence is a natural tendency. If he has spent his whole life in that neighborhood and that is the life that he is most experienced with, then it would be normal to him.
It's the feelings of discouragement stemmed from childhood, your first ten years are most crucial for your perception paving and knowledge, so if their spent being discouraged and unloved when your very young it can certainly be learned. There's too many variables in this, hence me thinking psychology is a joke and shouldn't be rendered teachable, because human behavior is infinitely distinctive, there will never be an explanation for how the mind works, that being said psychology shouldn't be rendered informative but rather merely a joke and is the basis for money.
Psychology is a really tricky science, but it's helped me a lot. I've had a somewhat traumatic past and while I haven't wanted to go to a doctor to get medicine, talking to my therapist and practicing cognitive behavioral therapy independntly are helping me a lot. It really is an individual thing, the more you analyse a person the more you're able to link together why they do the things they do.
I'm trying to get a Masters in art therapy, hoping to help troubled kids. It's definitely not going to be an easy job, it take a lot of empathy and it's such a fluid science, but I cannot say that it's useless either.
Don't even get me started on pharmaceuticals though. You wanna talk about a basis for money?
It is no joke. It has some intresting pionts however the people in the feild are abusing it. Do not blame science and study.for human stupidity.
Maybe some people need to their issues "fixed" ask anybody with a difficult childhood, it's hard to beat.
There is no science behind thinking or why people feel as they do. Your psych can never fully be understood, no person can be even close to understood, the human mind's depths are unfathomable. You can study emotion, but not WHY the particular person feels that and attaches it with their senses, and feels it then and there, I'm not bothering with explaining, it's like psychology and shouldn't be fucked with.
Also munipulation is a skill I have been exsposed to and have used so you are not going to disprove simple facts. You are looking it from a piont a child would please dont lecture me with blind followings.
It's manipulation, you god damn little girl! MANIPULATION!!!! are you looking to be a poster-child for sociopath's or stupid people? I know what manipulation is, everyone manipulates or lies to keep things on an even keel or to do good for themselves, and psychology immediately renders them "sociopaths" they are not "path" fucking anything! their people!
fuck psychology!
Oh but it will. people are far to simple. Why do we eat to survive our body is burning it to make energy. Why do we feel attached to our family why do young boys chase young girls drooling? You dont know what munipulation is do you? You can not say it does not exsist since it has been done. If you jump of a cliff you may or may not die. So that fact you try to state as you have to prove munipulation is impissible look up charli manson and than tell me phychology is none exsistant fool.
I'm aware of psychopathy (I am, by layman's terms, a psychopath, do I run around like Manson starting cults and tattooing swa sticka's onto my head?) There's a fine line between human nature and individual morals. You are far too emotionally inept, have some people die in front of you, witness a couple murders in a bad neighborhood, do some terrible things and don't know why you do them and can't stop. Gain some tragic experience before you start thinking you can understand people.
You silly little girl
Well said.
Maybe also think of psychology as a personal thing.
There are many individuals that go to psychologists and are helped.
I've never been to one, as I'm not crazy Lol
Psychologists, sure they are the Therapists, who want to get in your head, still trying knowing it's impossible but they want to know why you feel what you feel, or do as you do. Any form of Therapist/Counselor/Social-Worker whatever their actual title is awesome, they talk it through and get to know you and don't give up until they can be of difference making.
Psychiatrist's on the other hand, I personally hate, they deal with textbook cliche mental disorders (Panic, Insomnia, Depression) and fill out a pad for a Pharmacy visit. There job's are jokes.
P.S you don't have to be crazy to see a counselor, if you don't have a support system, where else are you going to get opinions truly best for you. everything they do is for you, ensuring your okay and your happy.
I wouldn't say that their jobs are jokes, as the root of the problem for MANY is a chemical imbalance in the brain that can be corrected by boosting the right chemical to correct the imbalance. However, in many cases of mood disorders, the chemical dysfunction was either caused by or worsened by other factors.
In that case, the patient must make a lifestyle change to avoid the issues that are causing them the most problems, such as exercising, cutting out fast food and lowering their sugar intake, discontinuing friendships or family relations (the latter is an option many patients don't have) so they take the medication but don't commit to the lifestyle changes (as mental illnesses such as mood disorders often don't happen for NO reason) so the treatment fails. Often like the diet given to you by a nutritionist. The diet works but only as well as you work WITH it.
I've worked with the mentally ill and it is a legit science, I have seen people overcome mental illness through various means and it is miraculous when they do so, but some illnesses require extensive treatment that often the patient (usually BECAUSE of their mental illness) is not fully committing to.
But families within our society no longer place as high of a priority on coping strategies and open communication with their children, so you have millions of people who don't know how to cope with their problems and millions of children being pumped sugar and TV and the only answer we think there is is to drug them and treat them as if they were actually mentally ill - we don't want to outcast them and diet and exercise is no longer seen as an actual medical treatment.
Not an invalid science, just so many invalid ways of looking at it that it has finally rubbed off on the industry.
I usually go to teachers I like never a counsler or clinique proffesional. Strangley it is more helpful from someone who is not payed money to fix your issues.
I've spent years studying this sort of thing, and it can be both, or just one of them.
This is actually something I would love to know.... I have some bad anger issues...
Both... My father and brother are both horribly angry all the time, but that's not to say it can't be learned either.
Obviously it varies from person to person. Just because a parent is angry, it doesn't mean it will undoubtedly 'transfer' to the child.
By asking this you are putting it in a black or white perspective. Nithing is black or white have you not heard the world "has several shades of grey"? Every case is diffrent and It depends on situation. People do thus alot they only see absolutes this go for criminals, scuicide victems, sexuality, anger problems. Nothing is absolute when people stop seeing things in such a narrow line they see the truth. It is not a stream or a river it is a forrest and yet everyone seems to feel so safe sticking to one aspect. However for us open minded people We see all parts not just the ones we like. "its not just I am right your wrong unless you argue the same aspect however you might get to the same piont with multiple aspects".
its just natural .... and yes the extent of it depends on how well are you socialized..... we get angry on things we dont like, we dont want to see, we dont want to go through but showing it depends on how much cases we have gone through in which we suffer because of our own anger.... with time we learn when to get angry when to just swallow it when to just show your discomfort and when to become terribly rediculous.... and indeed the person who learns the art to control it is almost happy... but sometimes we should show it.... there is saying for what is anger and they say....TO PUNISH YOUR SELF AND YOUR REPUTATION FOR SOMEONE ELSES MISTAKE.... :)