Sentences with phrase «aggression levels of»

Single player and both online and offline multiplayer modes are available, with a level editor providing the player the option to create their own riot events dictating aggression levels of both sides, weather, time, and obstacle positions all against uploaded backgrounds.

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McMaster's Alex Sevigny said there was no surprise to see opposition leaders and MPs at the lower end of the scale, which was determined after «coders» were trained to watch sessions of Question Period and identify the level of rudeness based on factors such as aggression and anger.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

At higher densities, hens are more evenly distributed across all areas of the house, including the litter, which may explain their lower levels of aggression and feather pecking (DEFRA, 2007).

«He knows the level of this team, the pressing and the aggression that you need.

The 23 - year - old is known for his strength, speed and aggression and will bring a level of tenacity and leadership to the Gunners» defence, which could use all of those attributes and more at the moment.

If Liverpool can show the same level of tactical awareness, aggression and commitment against Spurs, Liverpool will certainly be on their way to three points, and the same is true of any other game this season.

At fifteen, the kids of troubled marriages had significantly higher levels of truancy, depression, peer rejection, low school achievement, behavior problems, anger and aggression.

Violent video games, particularly «first person shooter» games, are known to raise levels of aggression in boys and are particularly counterproductive for boys who already show high levels of aggression.

In a related article, Durrant and Ensom4 summarize research done over the last 20 years suggesting that the physical punishment of children is associated with increased levels of child aggression and is no better at eliciting compliance than other methods.

Two years later, the mothers who had spanked their children more frequently reported higher levels of aggression such as arguing, screaming, fighting, destroying things, cruelty or bullying in their five - year - olds.

If they understand you are the leader of the family before the new baby arrives, their level of aggression or anxiety towards new additions to the «pack» (or family) is likely to wane.

1 out of every 16 infants fed ready - to - eat liquid formula are exposed to BPA at doses exceeding those that caused increased aggression and significant changes in testosterone levels in laboratory animals.

But were physical punishment and childhood aggression statistically associated because more aggressive children elicit higher levels of physical punishment?

And there is anthropological evidence in support of the idea that physical punishment trains people to accept higher levels of societal aggression.

Some of these studies involved large representative samples from the United States; 2 some studies controlled for potential confounders, such as parental stress3 and socioeconomic status; 4 and some studies examined the potential of parental reasoning to moderate the association between physical punishment and child aggression.5 Virtually without exception, these studies found that physical punishment was associated with higher levels of aggression against parents, siblings, peers and spouses.

To address the causality question within ethical bounds, researchers designed prospective studies involving children who had equivalent levels of aggression or antisocial behaviour at the beginning of the study.

That is a level of passive aggression that is almost award - worthy.

Klitschko told The Associated Press that «of course» he is afraid of Russian aggression, but said the standoff over Crimea shouldn't be solved «on a military level.»

The Annual Conference of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union has heard today that in too many cases adequate risk assessments are not undertaken of pupils who persistently display high levels of aggression and violence in school.

The researchers hypothesized that Southerners come from a «culture of honor» in which aggressive responses to insults are culturally appropriate, and the results of their experiment bolstered that notion: Not only were Southerners more likely than their northern counterparts to respond with aggression, but their levels of testosterone also rose as a result.

«In addition, there are some recent papers implicating increased levels of this hormone in people with personality disorders that lead to higher levels of aggression.»

While lying in an MRI scanner, the participants then had to compete in a task which has regularly been used over the past 50 years to observe levels of aggression in response to provocation.

This relationship, however, was weakened for individuals who reported a higher level of childhood exposure to verbal aggression.

And he showed that when success depends on fair play, higher testosterone levels encourage cooperation instead of aggression.

Not only were Southerners more likely than their Northern counterparts to respond with aggression, but their levels of testosterone also rose as a result.

«Findings from both studies indicate that children who showed higher levels of conduct problems — that is, aggression, fighting, stealing from peers — were more likely to be economically left leaning and distrustful of the political system as adults,» says study author Gary J. Lewis of Royal Holloway, University of London.

Researchers expected an increase in testosterone levels to inevitably lead to more aggression, and this didn't reliably occur, says Frank T. McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill..

What's more, this was not true for those who had witnessed greater levels of physical aggression or self - harm.

The study, published in the journal Developmental Psychology, also found children with bedroom media watched programs and played video games that were more violent, which increased levels of physical aggression.

«Verbal aggression by patients linked with higher level of anger among mental health nurses than physical advances, new research shows.»

Moreover, artificially increasing or decreasing testosterone levels within the normal range usually just reinforces previous patterns of aggression rather than dramatically transforming behavior; beta males may still be milquetoasts, and alphas still bullies.

While exposure to physical aggression and self - harm are known to have detrimental consequences for nurses working in mental health services in terms of staff sickness and trauma, this new study suggests that nurses who are subject to humiliating personal remarks experience higher levels of distressing emotions, including anger.

It's hard to pin down the biological basis for the changes that took place in early human ancestors and domesticated animals as they developed lower levels of aggression.

This study could even be combined with an investigation into how these activities affect the children's long - term health, intelligence, and level of aggression.

But the study also notes there was no significant increase in levels of physical aggression after fighting human - looking video game characters, something that suggests social prohibitions against violent acts remain strong.

These conditions can interfere with children's abilities to control their own behavior, resulting in higher levels of aggression in early and middle childhood.

Relational victimization, experienced by boys and girls at similar levels, was related to higher levels of relational aggression and internalizing problems such as symptoms of depression and of anxiety, as well as lower levels of received prosocial behavior like peer support and help (called prosocial support).

The study also found that children and adolescents who experience higher levels of overt victimization report higher levels of overt aggression and lower levels of prosocial support, and exhibit more externalizing behavior such as delinquency, impulsivity, and conduct problems.

Mantis shrimp that perceived an opponent's UV reflectance as low were more willing to fight and to escalate contests more quickly, suggesting that the spot enhances the threat display and provides valuable clues about an opponent's level of aggression.

However, many studies have found no link at all between levels of androgens and aggression.

In addition to researching levels of aggression, we also looked at how consistent males were in their aggressive displays.

They had developed smaller skeletons, white spots on their fur, floppy ears, and curlier tails; their craniums had also changed shape, resulting in less sexual dimorphism, and they had lower levels of aggression overall.

Thus the higher levels of stress hormones in alpha males, the team contends, are probably due to the stress of expending the energy necessary to stay competitive and on top of the hierarchy, whereas low - ranking males are stressed out by social factors such as being the targets of aggression by alpha males.

For the project, the team examined MRI images from two groups of children with autism: one that exhibited problematic levels of aggression and one that didn't.

The platform also criticizes the President Barack Obama's Administration for issuing a National Security Strategy that «elevates «climate change» to the level of a «severe threat» equivalent to foreign aggression.

A new study suggests that low levels of glucose in the blood may increase anger and aggression between spouses.

Researchers found that wild colonies with high levels of aggression were also bolder in their foraging efforts.

Previous experimental studies have shown that a few minutes» worth of violent video game play can influence a person's levels of aggression and willingness to help others.

Also in the mix is the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, higher levels of which are associated with aggression.