Readings

So I was reading about aggression in general and found this paragraph segment of particular interest. " Emotional responses are characterized by heightened physiological arousal reflected in muscular tensions and a particular facial expression. In the case of human anger, one can typically observe a flushed face and either agitated motor movements or a stiffened, tense posture. Violent aggressive acts resulting in pain and destruction do not necessarily accompany anger. There is evidence that anger in adults is relatively infrequently accompanied by aggressive acts and that anger man or may not imply a desire to inflict injury.
It also states that Darwin recognized that the major function of emotions for animals and humans is one of communication....(like, approach me or stay the fuck away from me communication). To continue... It is being said that the connection between anger and inflicting harm is not automatic. Also, Most of the situations that make adult humans angry do so as a result of previous experience. While the biological patterning of anger can be observed in human infants, the capacity of particular stimuli and situations to evoke anger in humans is usually learned.
Konrad Lorenz, a pioneer in the study of ethology and a Nobel Prize winner, defined aggression as the fighting instinct in the beast and man. He conceived of aggression in terms of a biologically based, instinctual system that derives energy from organismic processes independently of external stimuli or provocation. The aggressive energy builds up, as it were, until discharged by an appropriate releaser. In the absence of an appropriate releaser, the aggressive energy will eventually be discharged spontaneously or in response to an inappropriate stimulus.