2017/18 (2020): Aggression

We live in a world full of aggression. Not a day goes by without us hearing about conflicts between people, and we only take a marginal note of the weaker and more subtle forms of violence. Has the earth’s potential for violence really increased? According to serious researchers and relative to the growing world population, it has even decreased. Reason enough to take up this topic from the perspective of various disciplines within the framework of the „Studium Generale“.

Aggression appears in very different contexts. This can be due to the influence of gender stereotypes in couple relationships or viewed from the angle of criminology or the influence of norms and religious values; there are negative and positive effects of aggression in road traffic or the question of protection against aggression in (social) media; and the view from biology also sheds light on the role aggression plays in the animal kingdom and whether this might not ultimately enable reflection on our lives.