Threatening Language Threats and Worse Literature Review

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99). Brewster (2000), looking specifically at the question of how threatening language and physical violence are related in intimate relationships. Looking at hundreds of individuals involved in intimate relationships that included verbal threats, some of which went on to include physical violence, she also found that there is a clear cycle of dynamics between the individuals, in which verbal threats generally intermingle with physical violence and in which certain actions such as stalking bridge the difference between threats and action, since stalking can be considered to be an expressive act more like speech (that is, threats) than like physical violence.

Ferstl, Rinck, & Von Cramon (2005) examined neurolinguistic patterns that show up when threatening language and the accompanying emotions are felt by individuals and found that there are in fact signatures on a neurolinguistic level of assessment of threats.

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Their fMRI analysis on individuals demonstrated that their subjects reacted quite differently (in terms of which areas of their brains were activated) when presented with threatening language that was consistent with the overall themes in a narrative as opposed to threatening language that was inconsistent with other aspects of the content of a narrative.

Both of these studies suggest that there is not a single model that can be used to assess and explain the relationship between threats and violence. Rather, in different subsets of human relationships (emergency room treatments, intimate relationships), there are predictable cycles that can be assessed and recognized as key patterns in which verbal threats lead to violence......

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