War, Sports and Aggression: An Empirical Test of Two Rival Theories1
- 1 February 1973
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 75 (1) , 64-86
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1973.75.1.02a00040
Abstract
This paper investigates relationships between war, sport and aggression. Two rival models of behavior are tested: the Drive Discharge Model and the Culture Pattern Model Two test strategies are used: a cross‐cultural correlation study and a diachronic case study of the U.S. War and combative sports are found to be positively correlated, thus discrediting aggression as a drive in humans and supporting it as a learned cultural behavior pattern.Keywords
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