What Psychologists Says On Homicide!!!

Post #4

5/24/08

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As I went on my research game I wanted to get someone else opinion on reasonings for homicides. I found Professor David Buss opinion on murder and the research and facts he found. Buss argues that murder has evolved because killing certain people is beneficial to reproductive competition, which he says is a subconscious drive behind nearly all murders. Ok to many big words basically what he is saying is some people do it for the competition they don't care about the one in danger life.

Buss said the recent robbery and murder in West Campus could be a prime example of an assailant attempting to acquire material wealth, if that was his motive. According to evolutionary theory, material wealth or resources are extremely valued by the sex that invests greater time and energy into offspring - in the case of humans, that's women. And the research to that shooting that I found was video games. While these kids go through these shooting their minds are set to having them think there in a video game when they're really doing there killing.

Buss said, that the drive to murder in general is deeply and subconsciously rooted in reproductive competition. Having more resources enables an individual to appear more competitive as compared to another in the eyes of a prospective mate. "Murder has a lot to do with mating," Buss said. Yes and I agree. Like Buss said "murder has a lot to do with mating. As we all know with mating theres sometimes one more in control than the other. When someone kills at times it might be for protection but with others it's to show whose in control and whose the weak one.

"The old thinking"

David also says that other criminal psychology theories "don't do a very good job of explaining the killing." Which I also agree. The words they be using be words they went to college to learn not the readers. So that means you have to sometimes break it down into more simplar word because not everyone uses those complex words. And it also seems as though other pyschologists beats around the bush sometimes to make it sound interesting when indeed it does not at all.

Before the early 1980s, murders were often classified by psychologists as "corruptions of the mind through media," Buss said. Studies of these theories have shown that murder rates do not correlate with the presence of media in cultures. Speaking of media back in the 1980's according to my research was over exagerating what really happened. But it was a big deal back then also because not alot of murders went on back then at least not as many as today.

Dash, Dev. "Psychology professor studies evolution's role in homicides." 12/9/05. 29 May 2008 .

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