Contemporaneously other theories uphold the belief that individuals withhold a natural instinct to behave violently, which requires very little motivation, therefore believing that violence is the result of a failed constraint or control. ... It is believed that whilst carrying out violence the individual, animal or symbol "reduces" an object, and negates some aspects of its being (Jackson-Jacobs, 2010). ...

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This was the common belief at this time "research such as Lorenz" (1974 cited in Brown 2007) put forward a biological theory arguing that conflict could be explained in terms of intrinsic aggressive instincts Tajfel believed that this 'blood and guts' model as he coined them did not account for the waxing and waning of political conflicts throughout the world. ...

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