You see it on the news, read it in the newspapers, you hear it on the radio: rampaging soccer fans, knife attacks, murders, burglaries. Aggressiveness and violence cause damage that can hardly be quantified and that society as a whole has to bear. And yet they are part of it, even if the number of violent crimes in Germany has been falling steadily for years.
Scientists have been trying to figure out what causes aggressive behavior for a long time. What conditions and circumstances determine how violent a person becomes – and what can be done about it? A recent study of these questions suggests that the roots of violent behavior…
