Unleash Your Inner Warrior

Mark Smith, aka 'Rhino,' is a champion bodybuilder, boxer, and UK gladiator.

Rhino believes that going into a fight angry is beneficial.

Rhino compares a fight between two lions to a tactical game.

Rhino suggests hitting a punching bag as a way to release anger.

Rhino believes that controlled aggression used in boxing can relax a person.

The narrator feels aggressive after participating in the boxing match.

True or false: Entropy is the tendency of energy to spread out and disorder to increase over time.

True or false: Humans have a natural inclination to destroy things.

True or false: Catharsis Theory suggests that acts of destruction reduce anger.

True or false: Anger rooms are a recent trend where people pay to break things and release their anger.

True or false: Researchers have fully understood the specifics and variables involved in studying the mind and anger.

True or false: The demonstration of Catharsis Theory involved setting up an anger room to observe the effects of breaking things on angry individuals.

True or false: The subjects in the study were asked to write essays on opposing political views.

True or false: Clint is one of the subjects in the study.

True or false: Clint's job is to make the subjects angry.

True or false: Catharsis Theory suggests that acting out anger can provide a long-term release of aggression.

True or false: The modern view of catharsis is well-defined and universally accepted.

True or false: Some subjects in the study were allowed to actively break objects in the anger room.

True or false: The subjects in the study were aware that they were actually participating in a study about aggressive response to cute stimuli.

True or false: The researchers believe that the brain's response to cuteness and aggression releases dopamine, which is associated with reward and pleasure.

True or false: The majority of subjects in the study popped more bubbles while watching images of puppies compared to images of landscapes.

True or false: Cute aggression is a psychological phenomenon that is unique to certain cultures.

True or false: Destruction can have both positive and negative effects on our emotional state.

True or false: The desire to touch cute stimuli can be regulated by engaging in aggressive physical behavior.

True or false: The red light indicates that the subject will receive a shock?

True or false: The green light indicates that the subject wins?

True or false: The subjects who acted violently in the anger room seemed to have calmed down?

True or false: Witnessing danger allows us to learn and prepare for it?

True or false: The Bobo Doll Experiment involved adults acting violently towards a clown doll in the presence of children?

True or false: People have a natural urge to destroy harmless plastic bubbles of air in bubble wrap?