... victim suffer as part of the goal. The victims suffering is induced by pain reinforcement. Usually this aggression is accompanied by anger and winning is no longer important. For example a player fights another player during a hockey game. Instrumental Aggression is the intention to ... sport as a cure for violence because natural human instincts are violent. These natural instincts are released and occur during the sport. Freud believed that every human being has a death instinct which is part of the human psyche. If the energy is not released during sport, it ... will eventually build...

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