Human Aggression

Year Published: 1976

Copyright: Registered 20Sep76 · MP30237 (Jan-Jun 1977) Copyright holder: Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc

Complete Record: Major scientific principles and findings on human aggression are demonstrated. Shots of a gang, the Young Skulls, on streets of the Bronx, New York City, stopping traffic and jumping on a car. Shots of animals in the wild. Sequence of rival gang encounter. Young men flip off, or give the middle- finger to the camera. Aggressive gang activity alternates with laboratory studies and simulated incidents such as young children watching television footage of an adult repeatedly striking a blow- up doll followed by the children imitating the violent behavior when given the same doll to play with. Sequence of phony electroshock experiment. Brief montage of Vietnam followed by men with afros on street discussing vengeance. Car tracking shot of derelict buildings in the South Bronx.