simply attract people who are already aggressive? Aggression and sport have

gone together as long as sports have been around, be it the players

themselves, to the parents, coaches, or spectators, they just seem to be an

inseparable part of each other. The term violence is defined as physical

assault based on total disregard for the well being of self and others, or the

intent to injure another person ( 2. Coakley). Intimidation usually does not

cause physical harm, but often is designed to produce psychological

consequences, enabling one person to physically over power or dominate

another. These statements as defined by the author, Jay J. Coakley, is what

people today have made a must part on sport. Pleasure and participation

sports absolutely cannot be grouped with power and performance sports

when in relation to aggression.Pleasure sports are simply played for pleasure.

Score is usually not kept. The athletes participating are usually on occasion

doing it for fun and exercise. A majority of athletes who have been playing

sports since they were little, have probably been pounded into their heads

that to be successful in sport, you need to be aggressive, and at some times,

unnecessary. Also that to get what you want, you have to go at it with all

force. Not that this is wrong but, this attitude in today's society has been a

major problem factor to the athletes when they get older, to get into trouble

with the law. Those long-term effects of so called discipline, patterns

develops these destructive behaviors. (9. Montague) Although some people

are still in belief that aggressive behaviors in all forms, are grounded into

instincts, but they also relate these actions to sports. Their parents played,

who were known for their aggressive behavior, so the child feels that they

have to live up to that expectation.( 6. Storr) Athletes do have to be

aggressive to a point, so that the team can form a strategy to win. There is

also a limit to aggression when it turns into violence. People might say that it's

not aggression or violence, it's just adrenaline pumping. Adrenaline isn't even

similar to violence. Aggression, maybe, but nothing that would be harmful to

anyone else. This might be a factor to why contact sports are so popular. For

example, football, hockey, rugby, wrestling, and boxing. Contrary to

predictions of instinct theory, several studies show that contact sports exist

and thrive in the same societies that have high rates of aggression and

violence. Unfortunately, another belief is that contact sports teach discipline,

self-respect, and self-defense. (8. May ) Contact sports aren't a positive way

to teach these things. Being physically tough helps, but it also needs to be left

on the field when the game is over. This can also lead to the abuse of family,

girlfriends, boyfriends, friends, and any other person who gets in their "way",

because athletes use these sports as a way to get their aggression and angers

out. ( 10. Hauser, Powers, Noam ) Other's might argue that it's skill, and not

in the least way violent. Although we really can't give a straight and to the

point answer to the question "Is aggression an Instinct?" We can say that in

man, as in other animals, there exists a physiological mechanism, when

stimulated, it rises both subjective feelings of anger and to physical changes,

which relate to fighting. This is easily set of