Briefly state the overall view of the relationship between heat and aggression. What types of crimes appear to be affected? Describe the research that looked into crime rates at mid-day and in the evening?
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Answer:
Aggression is thought to increase as temperature increases. However, an exception seems to be that when temperature gets too high, people become lethargic from the heat and aggression drops. In a study, property crimes (not thought of as crimes of aggression) were not affected by heat, but violent crime went up with heat. In another study, at mid-day, violent crime went up as temperature increased, but then dropped off as they became too high. On the other hand, in the evening hours, violent crime went up in a linear fashion and didn't drop off, because heat in the evening didn't get to mid-day levels (so people never became lethargic).
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