Abstract
Evidence supporting the fact that innate mechanisms of regulation of aggressive behavior as a result of a repeated experience of aggression ending in victories are transformed into pathological mechanisms based on accumulation of neurochemical shifts in the brain, enhancing aggressiveness, and forming aggressive motivation in aggressive winners. This confirms the concept by Lorenz on the existence of a mechanism (but not instinct) of a spontaneous accumulation of aggressive energy that needs a discharge and formation of permanent attraction to manifestation of aggression.
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Kudryavtseva, N.N. Lorenz Was Right! Or Does Aggressive Energy Accumulate?. Russian Journal of Genetics 40, 656–662 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:RUGE.0000033313.41606.23
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