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	Playfighting

deusdiabolus

9-21-2007 3:57 PM

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behavior, psychology, human nature, therapy, aggression, health

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9-21-2007 5:41 PM

Amergin

I agree with this entirely.

9-21-2007 5:42 PM

skwirlinator

I immediately thought of ProWrestling when I saw the title

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/517f9d0f-e6f1-41da-8a37-6298f158ea3a/6EC28421-6AF6-4A28-B2B2-2154B46B0EFD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://myrightmind.blogspot.com/2007/09/your-mother-was-wrong-about-fighting.html" href="http://myrightmind.blogspot.com/2007/09/your-mother-was-wrong-about-fighting.html" style="font-size: 11px;">myrightmind.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://myrightmind.blogspot.com/2007/09/your-mother-was-wrong-about-fighting.html"><DIV>Dr. Pellis, who is Professor of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge, has studied aggression in rats for 27 years and has come to the conclusion - we socialize pretty much the same. He recently presented his findings in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://myrightmind.blogspot.com/2007/09/your-mother-was-wrong-about-fighting.html">So what does Dr. Pellis believe rats can teach us about curbing our aggressive nature?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://myrightmind.blogspot.com/2007/09/your-mother-was-wrong-about-fighting.html"><OL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">We are naturally aggressive.</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Playfighting is where we learn to temper our aggressive instincts.</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Kids should be encouraged to playfight and when things get out of hand that is when the adults step in to teach appropriate play skills and reconciliation.<BR /></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Those who playfight can expect to form strong social bonds and learn how and when to defend oneself appropriately.</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Those who don't playfight as kids will develop poor social skills and can expect to get ostracized by the other children.</LI></OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6EC28421-6AF6-4A28-B2B2-2154B46B0EFD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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