The potters were extremely poor often with large families and it is believed these early breeders killed every dog that showed aggression to humans especially children this completely eradicated
human aggressive traits within the breed, so much so it was a common site to see a badly injured fighting dog returning home in prams alongside newborn babies.
Not exact matches
Lead author Dr Bonaventura Majolo, a behavioural ecologist based in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, said: «Parochialism — or being «prosocial» towards a member of your own group while being
aggressive towards other groups — is an interesting
trait from an evolutionary perspective because it lies at the heart of racism and out - group discrimination in
humans.
Human aggressive pitbulls were culled because it was a undesirable
trait.
But that is not an \ «unpredictable \»
trait, & they are not
human aggressive at all, unless there is something wrong with them (abuse, training, or disease / ailment.)
[jounal] Stickle, T. P. / 2009 / Callous - unemotional
traits and social information processing: Multiple risk - factor models for understanding
aggressive behavior in antisocial youth / Law and
Human Behavior 33 (6): 515 ~ 529