Many people implicitly believe Hydraulic Theory Violence: humans harbo — Steven Pinker, Better Angels Nature: Violence Declined

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Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for blood), which builds up inside us and must periodically be discharged. Nothing could be further from a contemporary scientific understanding of the psychology of violence. Aggression is not a single motive, let alone a mounting urge. It is the output of several psychological systems that differ in their environmental triggers, their internal logic, their neurobiological basis, and their social distribution.

Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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