{"id":11613,"date":"2014-06-23T21:34:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11613"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:16","slug":"can-we-cure-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/can-we-cure-violence","title":{"rendered":"Can We Cure Violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Steven Kotler\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/skotler\/\" rel=\"author\">Steven Kotler<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<br \/> Violence is contagious, this we know. Time and again, researchers have found that <a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/cjb.sagepub.com\/content\/37\/10\/1160\">exposure to aggression links directly to increases in violent behavior<\/a>. This is why, for example, 30% of abused children grow up to be abusers themselves. It\u2019s also why, as Gary Slutkin, a professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Illinois, Chicago and the executive director of CURE Violence, recently told <a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/new_scientist\/2014\/05\/epidemiology_of_violence_public_health_approaches_can_stop_shootings.html\"><i>New Scientist<\/i>:<\/a> \u201c[P]eople who have observed violence are 30 times more likely to commit it. Under certain conditions it can be up to 100 to 1,000 times more likely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/06\/19\/can-we-cure-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Kotler \u2014 Singularity Hub Violence is contagious, this we know. Time and again, researchers have found that exposure to aggression links directly to increases in violent behavior. This is why, for example, 30% of abused children grow up to be abusers themselves. It\u2019s also why, as Gary Slutkin, a professor of epidemiology and public [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47028,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions\/47028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}