Redirected Aggression Quotes & Sayings

Once randomly aggressive behavior gets started in an organization, it tends to be contagious, rapidly spreading itself because of a built-in mammalian device for relieving stress, called redirected aggression. Stanford physiologist Robert Sapolsky describes it this way:"Numerous psychoendocrine studies show that in a stressful or frustrating circumstance, the magnitude of the subsequent stress-response is decreased if the organism is provided with an outlet for frustration. For example, the [glucocorticoid] secretion triggered by electric shock in a rat is diminished if the rat is provided with a bar of wood to gnaw on, a running wheel, or, as one of the most effective outlets, access to another rat to bite. — Richard Conniff

You are mine," he rasped. "Only ever mine. I accept all that you are, and we can be together. — Gena Showalter

Outside the streets are buzzing with excitement and i'm not a part of it — Giovanna Fletcher

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right. — Boris Vian

I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard. — Fleur East

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. — Malcolm Turnbull

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use. — Thornton T. Munger