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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferrousbones" data-source="post: 9715008" data-attributes="member: 7042306">It has been at least 10 years since I saw it, but there were researchers doing physical violence experiments (subjects doing violence to inanimate objects) to see if people tended to feel more, less, or the same level of aggression afterward.From what I recall, individuals who didn't feel aggressive before committing the acts reported feeling aggressive afterward, and individuals who did feel aggressive before the acts reported no change. I think the added aggression was stated to last 20-60 minutes after the acts, but it has been too long for me to be sure.I do remember that virtual acts of violence were part of the research, but I can't remember any details on the effects to subjects. At the same time, it has been discovered that non-physical interactions are processed differently in the brain, so we can't extrapolate the physical to the non-physical.</blockquote>