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Fired Up: The Psychology of Aggression and the Practice of Self-Control

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Nathan Dewall
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Nathan Dewall
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9
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4
Release Date
April 20, 2020
Duration
6 hours 21 minutes
Summary
Award-winning psychology professor and leading textbook author Nathan DeWall has been called “one of the most influential psychological science leaders of his generation.” Now, you can join him in a fascinating audio course that helps answer the question, “Why do people behave aggressively?”
 
Aggression is one of the most troubling facets of the human experience. As we know from the nightly news, aggression causes people to harm people they know, people they love, and people they’ve never met. Some people cause harm because they feel too much, whereas others do so because they don’t feel much at all. Our genes influence whether we’ll respond to an insult with aggression, but so does our culture. So the question might instead be: Why don’t more people behave aggressively?
 
In this engaging 15-lecture course, Prof. DeWall walks you through the briar patch of aggression to answer all your questions about the root causes of hostile behavior. Incorporating vivid case studies and psychological research, the lectures challenge you to reconsider what you think you know about aggression and offer practical tools to prevent it in your daily life. 

Listen along with Prof. DeWall today for an in-depth look at this fascinating but troubling aspect of human behavior.

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Profile Avatar Kathryn L. Aug 2024

This is by far one of the worst listens I have tortured myself by getting partway through. Maybe I'll finish it in the future, but this is all around something I wouldn't recommend unless you're interested in finding all the ways someone who claims to be a scientist could be so... concerning? wrong? willfully ignorant?One of the early statistics, though giving a warning about correlations, was distressing. He speaks on how statistically children are less likely to be abducted now than in recent history. This completely ignores the cultural changes in parenting that see care givers more involved and present, making it harder to abduct children. He implies this should be less if a concern. I would argue it's less of a concern because it is a concern.Second, he mentions a statistic about 30% of the prison population being psychopaths, leading him to the interesting conclusion that 70% of psychopaths are among us, outside of prison. Those are different populations. That doesn't make sense. why would you jump to that conclusion about different data sets?Lastly, and this is a litte personal, but he seems wooden and unfamiliar with his own lecturing. He stumbles through his own words, mispronouncing them, stuttering. It's as though a cardboard cutout reached the bare minimum of sentience and slipped under the door of a recording studio. Or, more likely, decided to use the cheapest podcast microphone a 13 year old could get with their lawn mowing money.I understand my degree may only be in Developmental Psychology, but this makes me want to claim to be a Liberal Arts major so I can get some distance.

Profile Avatar Elena V. Aug 2025

To me, the text is lacking in quality, substance, and depth.

Fired Up: The Psychology of Aggression and the Practice of Self-Control

Fired Up: The Psychology of Aggression and the Practice of Self-Control

Author: Nathan Dewall
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