Jag har alltid funnit aggressiva män påfrestande och töntiga. Jag är inte ensam därom. En ny studie, ”Men’s Misperceptions about the Acceptability and Attractiveness of Aggression”, publicerad i Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, ger aggressiva män anledning att fundera på om de inte bör lägga band på sig:

Study 1 found that men (but not women) overestimated the aggressiveness of their peers. Study 2 demonstrated that men (but not women) overestimated peer approval of aggression and disapproval when an affront was not responded to aggressively. Study 3 found that men overestimate how attractive aggression is to women. Study 4 found that greater perceived discrepancies in aggression between self and peers was related to lower self-esteem, a weaker gender identification, and greater feelings of social marginalization, suggesting that men’s misperceptions about aggression norms have negative consequences for self-perceptions.

Nej, man blir inte poppis av att bråka och slåss. Sluta med det.