Why people are A-holes...or Why we torture Claydon

[taters]

...Other than he deserves it.



Brain Scans Show Bullies Enjoy Others' Pain
Neurological 'reward centers' lit up as they watched injuries occur, study found

Posted November 7, 2008

FRIDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Bullies may actually enjoy the pain they cause others, a new study using brain scans suggests.

The part of the brain associated with reward lights up when an aggressive teen watches a video of someone hurting another person, but not when a non-aggressive youth watches the same clip, according to the University of Chicago study, published in the current Biological Psychology.

"Aggressive adolescents showed a specific and very strong activation of the amygdala and ventral striatum (an area that responds to feeling rewarded) when watching pain inflicted on others, which suggested that they enjoyed watching pain," researcher Jean Decety, a professor in psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago, said in a university news release. "Unlike the control group, the youth with conduct disorder did not activate the area of the brain involved in self-regulation (the medial prefrontal cortex and the temporoparietal junction)."

The study compared eight 16- to 18-year-old boys with an aggressive conduct disorder to a group that didn't show unusual signs of aggression. All participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while watching videos in which people endured pain accidentally, such as when a heavy bowl was dropped on their hands, and intentionally, such as when a person stepped on another's foot.


The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about stopping bullying.

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/11/07/brain-scans-show-bullies-enjoy-others-pain.html

[Tar Heel]

Also, water is wet.

[TylerDurden]

Additionally, fire is hot.

[vicar in a tutu]

Nice work if you can get it? Sounds like someone has been watching Clockwork Orange?

[TylerDurden]

Nice work if you can get it? Sounds like someone has been watching Clockwork Orange?

great movie. a true classic from kubrick. malcolm mcdowell was fucking amazing in that movie.

[vicar in a tutu]

great movie. a true classic from kubrick. malcolm mcdowell was fucking amazing in that movie.

Wasn't he just? That film was banned over here for about 30 years because the wonderful people at the British Board of Film Classification thought that society would fall into degeneration if exposed to Kubricks vision of ultra-violence?

The Bristish Board of Film Classification are not big on irony funnily enough?

[OTiS]

Better to be a bully than a pussy.

[Kilgore]

I read somewhere that those that are bully's or those that are assholes to Claydon are attention getters and the only avenue to acomplish this. The lashing out at others or acting in a extreme manner to be recognized. It doesn't matter if its possitive or negative recognizion, but just to fullfill that personal need to be recongnized. They have nothing important to say, but this is the only way they know how to feed that desire to get attention.

[Insomniac]

I feed on your tears. Your cries of sorrow sustain me. Delicious.

[merlin13]

Everbody wants to kick someone when they are down.

[Archetype]

I feed on your tears. Your cries of sorrow sustain me. Delicious.
I was thinking more, "Yes! Yesss! Oh, let me taste your tears, Scott! Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet! Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! My-yummy!"

[Archetype]

Everbody wants to kick someone when they are down.
No, everybody wants to rule the world. Everybody knows that.

[taters]

No, everybody wants to rule the world. Everybody knows that.


Kick them when their up, kick them when their down (repeat 2x)

Dirty little secrets, dirty little lies...

[kid_vidrio]

I read somewhere that those that are bully's or those that are assholes to Claydon are attention getters and the only avenue to acomplish this. The lashing out at others or acting in a extreme manner to be recognized. It doesn't matter if its possitive or negative recognizion, but just to fullfill that personal need to be recongnized. They have nothing important to say, but this is the only way they know how to feed that desire to get attention.
In my short time on this planet, the best way of dealing with a bully is all or nothing, depending on the likelihood of police involvement.

[Feng]

Where is Claydon?

[medlar]

My amygdala gets totally activated when I see old people fall down and little kids getting beaten up.