In recent studies of catharsis and aggression, Bushman, Baumeister, and Stack (1999) found that
A) catharsis reduces aggressiveness for everyone, whether or not they believe it will.
B) catharsis and venting anger increases anger rather than reducing it.
C) in a version of the self-fulfilling prophecy, if people believe that catharsis effectively reduces their aggressive behaviour it will, if they don't believe catharsis reduces their aggressive behaviour then it won't.
D) catharsis reduces aggressiveness for men, but not women.
E) most people believe that catharsis is an effective way to reduce aggressive behaviours.
B) catharsis and venting anger increases anger rather than reducing it.
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