People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.

When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we admire them, they are encouraging terribly detrimental behavior. You might even say - a la Roman gladiators - they are egging on this behavior.

When people can say to themselves - What I'm doing is justified, there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.

Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).