There is a very widespread opinion that aggressive and assertive people compensate the lack of confidence with a bear-play. At the same time there are well-known facts that don’t fit in this conception. According to the statistics, more than 96 % of violent crimes are committed by men though they can hardly be less self-confident than women. These facts motivated American psychologists to question the widespread opinion. They believe that everything happens quite the opposite. According to them, the lack of confidence in themselves makes quarrelsome people be more peaceful.
The results of the researches show that the most conscious people are apt to sadism. We can also find the examples in films, in literature. The unforgettable fiction character of Hannibal Lecter from “The Silence of Lambs”, Marquis de Sade, the French writer, an aristocrat and a philisophist, from whom the term “sadism” comes from. Most of them don’t suffer from the lack of self-confidence, vice versa, they overvalue their own abilities too much. For example, most rapists don’t suffer from this, on the contrary, they overestimate their sexual abilities.
A psychologist Roy Baumeister admitted that some of these regularities of behavior occurs either in a family or at school. Some men can turn aggressive in the case when their partners try to take some measures to shake their position. There are such children in every school which terrorize their classmates mistakenly thinking that they are better in some way than others.
The scientists believe that the interrelation between conscious self-confidence and aggressiveness roots in the evolutionary heredity. For example, in fauna the higher status can be acquired by those who make their counterparts submit.
As we see some laws of nature are applied to human beings. I don’t pretend that this article is an absolute truth but I found this information quite interesting and it made me think about social issues like this.
The final Curious© phrase:
“Believe not all you see nor half you hear”
(English saying)
