Psychobiology of aggression in sports

Pages: 744-747
Hena Fatma (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, Utta Pradesh)
Tabasum Farooq Khan (Department of Forensic Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Utta Pradesh)
Munawwar Husain (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Utta Pradesh)

Animal studies shows that at a much based level, animals tend to leave some mark indicating territorial boundaries like urinating, rubbing a body on the tree etc. In case of chance meeting the strong would dominate over the weaker. The male animal tends to follow the female everywhere. Each species have characteristic mania of fighting adversities like lions blow up there mane, elephants flap and race after the enemy, etc. in any overt show of strength and aggression. The member shall risk a fight to corner female. However, in case of sports aggressive overtures are shown in ready display of strength and stamina. People tend to use illegal but realistic means to boost up their strength or in other words their overt aggression. This is supplemented by chemicals known as ”doping in sports”. The present paper discusses such an aspect with emphasis on psychobiology of aggression.