Spark: request additional moderator in HI forum

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I live in Portland. If any of you make the pilgrimage up to Astoria each November and December, please let me know.

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Found this:

"Numerous studies link low IQ to violent behavior, delinquency, and adult crime. In fact, as Bruce Bower recently noted in Science News, "Intelligence deficits make up one of the most firmly established characteristics of criminal offenders as a whole." But critics suggest that this may simply mean that high-IQ criminals are more likely to avoid capture.

A new study by Peter Giancola and Amos Zeichner, however, suggests that IQ and aggression are strongly linked even in non-criminal males. The researchers, who tested 30 males between the ages of 18 and 36 years, found "strong inverse correlations between IQ and aggressive behavior under both high and low provocation conditions."

Subjects in the study were told that they would be competing with an unseen opponent on a reaction-time test. They were seated in an experimental chamber and told to press a lever immediately upon seeing a red light on a console. Each subject was told that winning a trial would allow him to shock his opponent, while losing a trial would cause him to be shocked by the opponent. Five levels of shock, ranging from imperceptible to painful, were available.

(Researchers used a number of ruses to convince subjects that their opponents were real. In reality, however, shocks were delivered to participants according to a prearranged schedule.)

The researchers measured the intensity of the shocks administered by subjects to their fictitious opponents, and found that lower-IQ subjects were significantly more likely to deliver strong shocks than higher-IQ subjects. This was true even when the fictitious opponents delivered mild shocks.

"These results help bolster the hypothesis that possessing a high IQ may serve as a `protective factor' against the expression of anti-social or aggressive behavior," the researchers say. They note that their results support an earlier study by Kandel et al. which found that criminals' sons who became criminals themselves had significantly lower IQs than criminals' sons who did not participate in criminal activity.

Giancola and Zeichner add that "If this `protection' hypothesis is indeed correct, children with IQs in the lower range of the distribution should qualify as the main targets for violence prevention programs."


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"Intellectual ability and aggressive behavior in nonclinical-nonforensic males," Peter R. Giancola and Amos Zeichner, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1994. Address: Amos Zeichner, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3013.


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I hope I am not the last man in the forum to convey congratulations to you, Dan. Two thumbs up!!
 
Damn, if Spark ever reads this thread, not only will Pendentive never become a moderator, but I think he will shut this forum down entirely :eek: ;) I'm not sure exactly how the thread drifted from anouncing the new moderator to a discussion of psychedelics/entheogens and crime, but it sure is interesting.
--Josh
 
Josh Feltman said:
Damn, if Spark ever reads this thread, not only will Pendentive never become a moderator, but I think he will shut this forum down entirely :eek: ;) I'm not sure exactly how the thread drifted from anouncing the new moderator to a discussion of psychedelics/entheogens and crime, but it sure is interesting.
--Josh


:D I don't know about that, but maybe he should add a new forum ;)
 
Hollow- to understand crime you have to understand sociopathy. Many sociopaths are very smart. I have the same problem with the test you listed as the Stanford study- once subjects know they're in a test, individual responsibility changes.

None of this means I'd be surprised many low IQ people commit violent crimes.


Josh, I sure like the "Knives and Colors" forum.


munk
 
Well, the day's not lost, I learned a new word: entheogen.
 
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Actually Rusty has been 'chompin on cactus for years.
...and oh yeah, he's 5' 4" :D
 
Cat- that is the BEST parody of Rusty I've ever seen.


It begs a question- if you found someone with a back yard filled with San Pedro, would you trust them more if no bites were taken from the cacti, or if several specimens showed scarring? And how about if every cacti was barely hanging in so much skin was missing?

I actually think some people don't need magic mushrooms and the rest- they already are there.
I kindly include myself in this category-


munk
 
It's a done deal, gang. Keep your eyes peeled Monday Morning....:D
 
Well, at least Bill the Cat got the twin six-shooters right. How about adding a "California State Line" behind the the fence?

Pen: maybe whiile he's at it he'll get my Gold Membership done.

And munk. I agree some of us don't need entheogens to make the trip. Those of us who are mystics, those who've had near death experiences, those who've had the discipling to reach that point, those who fast, meditate, use prayer or other techniques to weaken the mind's control to the same effect... and thereby submit themselves or become open to acceptance.
 
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