Brad Bushman

The idea that venting anger releases it and reduces future aggression is consistently unsupported by controlled studies.

Brad Bushman at Ohio State has run multiple well-designed studies showing that venting anger, specifically aggressive venting, increases aggression rather than reducing it.

Expressing anger at full volume, with no purpose or structure behind it, is not cathartic release.

It's rehearsal.

In any area of mental health, you want to know the science so we can really understand what these topics are about from a data-driven perspective.

Now, a couple of months ago, a brilliant scholarly article written by doctors Sophie Kirovic and Brad Bushman from Ohio State University took on the big topic of the association between narcissism and aggression, and they did this in a very comprehensive manner.

This paper is one of the best examinations I have ever seen of this issue.

The authors looked at the results of 437 existing individual studies as a means of drawing their conclusions.

But in our day-to-day lives, even with people who may be less dangerous, those signs and signals still matter.

For those of you who are interested in this idea of things like serial killers and violence and aggression and narcissism, really high-quality research on this is being done by Brad Bushman and his colleagues at Ohio State.

And their work has shown very clearly that violence and aggression are associated with these personalities.

But in our day-to-day lives, even with people who may be less dangerous, those signs and signals still matter.

For those of you who are interested in this idea of things like serial killers and violence and aggression and narcissism, really high-quality research on this is being done by Brad Bushman and his colleagues at Ohio State.

And their work has shown very clearly that violence and aggression are associated with these personalities.

In any area of mental health, you want to know the science so we can really understand what these topics are about from a data-driven perspective.

Now, a couple of months ago, a brilliant scholarly article written by doctors Sophie Kirovic and Brad Bushman from Ohio State University took on the big topic of the association between narcissism and aggression, and they did this in a very comprehensive manner.

This paper is one of the best examinations I have ever seen of this issue.

The authors looked at the results of 437 existing individual studies as a means of drawing their conclusions.

Even going for a run actually made anger worse in their analysis because it raised arousal rather than lowering it.

One of the researchers, Brad Bushman, put it about as bluntly as an academic can.

There isn't a shred of scientific evidence supporting catharsis theory.

So, venting didn't expel the anger.

Now, a couple of months ago, a brilliant scholarly article written by Drs.

Sophie Kirevick and Brad Bushman from Ohio State University took on the big topic of the association between narcissism and aggression, and they did this in a very comprehensive manner.

This paper is one of the best examinations I have ever seen of this issue.

The authors looked at the results of 437 existing individual studies as a means of drawing their conclusions.

But in our day-to-day lives, even with people who may be less dangerous, those signs and signals still matter.

For those of you who are interested in this idea of things like serial killers and violence and aggression and narcissism, really high-quality research on this is being done by Brad Bushman and his colleagues at Ohio State, and their work has shown very clearly that violence and aggression are associated with these personality styles.

Now, a serial killer is a rare, rare event, thank goodness.

But nonetheless, the crimes they commit do harm to many, obviously not just their direct victims, but the many people around them, the people who cared about those victims, and the people in a community.