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PEOPLE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD MAY ACT HEATEDLY TOWARD OTHERS
New research helps explain link between social rejection and aggressive behavior
( www.apa.org/releases/social-0109.html )
I've noticed some tribes that like to exclude tend to attract aggressive responses from those rejected.
I've suspected that putting people in jail (excluding them from society) tends to beget more anti-social behaviour, specially since society makes it hard for them to integrate back into society, despite "paying for their actions."
I suspect that exclusion is a form of evading a problem and/or passing the trouble to someone else, because, even though we may no longer deal with such people because we left them out of our environment, that person's trouble may worsen and manifest itself with more severity to others.
New research helps explain link between social rejection and aggressive behavior
( www.apa.org/releases/social-0109.html )
I've noticed some tribes that like to exclude tend to attract aggressive responses from those rejected.
I've suspected that putting people in jail (excluding them from society) tends to beget more anti-social behaviour, specially since society makes it hard for them to integrate back into society, despite "paying for their actions."
I suspect that exclusion is a form of evading a problem and/or passing the trouble to someone else, because, even though we may no longer deal with such people because we left them out of our environment, that person's trouble may worsen and manifest itself with more severity to others.
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Re: a case against exclusion
Fri, June 19, 2009 - 12:45 PMThe disenfranchised and the alienated would get mad? Go figure. -
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Re: a case against exclusion
Sun, June 21, 2009 - 7:11 PMWell, I agree. Narrative therapists suggest that you make bullies more popular and they will stop bullying. Gerald Monk, I think came up with that. I've used it a bit in our school with some improvement.
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Re: a case against exclusion
Sat, July 4, 2009 - 10:32 AMWow. Great thread. I wonder how much guilt has to do with this.
Often our society sends someone to prison for committing a "moral" wrong and during their prison time they are expected to feel guilty and repent. We isolate them without actually focusing on the real cause of why they did it. Thus, upon release (quite often) they are no different.
"I've suspected that putting people in jail (excluding them from society) tends to beget more anti-social behaviour, specially since society makes it hard for them to integrate back into society, despite "paying for their actions."
Making them feel guilty? or perhaps inferior?
