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Understanding Anger and Violence: How Fights Start and Escalate

Explore the origins of fights and violence, including anger, revenge, and the desire for control. Discover the role of friends and bystanders, as well as ways to respond to provocation. Learn how to control anger and avoid getting caught in a cycle of violence.

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Understanding Anger and Violence: How Fights Start and Escalate

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  1. Section 7.3 How Fights Start Objectives Explain how anger and a desire for revenge can lead to fights. Describe the role that friends and bystanders play in fights. Explain the relationship between a need for control and violence.

  2. Dear Advice Line, There’s a guy at school who whispers “loser” every time he sees me in the hall. I know this guy is a jerk, so I ignore him. My friends think I should insult him back. Do you agree with this student’s response? Why or why not? What do you think the student should do?

  3. Arguments • Anger is at the root of most arguments and of many fights. • About 40% of all homicides stem directly from arguments.

  4. Anger • The body reacts to anger the same way it does to stress. • Physical changes include tensed muscles, and increased heart and breathing rates. • You can control your overall reaction to anger. • By choosing not to fight, you do not let the other person control you.

  5. Hurt Pride and Embarrassment • It is not surprising that hurt pride and embarrassment lead to fighting. • When your pride is hurt or you become embarrassed, you may become angry.

  6. Revenge • The desire for revenge leads to a dangerous cycle of fighting. • In cases where revenge is the motive for a fight, the fighting can quickly escalate or grow more intense. • Revenge is a common motive in fights between territorial gangs.

  7. The Role of Friends The Role of Bystanders The people who gather do so hoping to see a fight. • Friends who urge you to fight are acting as instigators. • Instigators are people who encourage fighting between others while staying out of the fight themselves.

  8. Peer Pressure • It is often more difficult for a person to avoid a fight when friends or bystanders are present. Why is this?

  9. Control • One person’s desire to have control over another is the main reason for domestic violence and dating violence. • There are laws that protect women in abusive relationships. • There are also groups that try to help abusers learn to control their violent behavior. • Women may stay in an abusive relationship simply because they may be afraid to stay challenge their abuser, but too afraid to leave.

  10. Vocabulary escalate To grow more intense. instigator A person who encourages fighting between others while staying out of the fight himself or herself.

  11. End of Section 7.3 Click on this slide to end this presentation.

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