ing their true aggression by slamming into one another and physically abusing their own bodies.K. E. Moyer has a somewhat different theory on how violence is provoked. Moyer states in the book Violence and Aggression: A Psychological Perspective that there are a half of million people with brain disorders that lead to violence. With the vastly growing population Moyer states that there will be an increase in the absolute number of biologically violence-prone individuals. Meaning that more and more people will be born with brain disorders that relate to violence.Moyer's theory can be tied into Tough's passage on the mosh pit through the minds of the teenagers in the pit. Everyone in the mosh pit in Tough's article is acting with the same basic demeanor. The moshers may all have a certain brain disorder that they can not control which makes them want to vent their anger through body thumping. Although most moshers may have a brain disorder that makes them violent, not everyone might have this disorder. Other teenagers in the pit may just like moshing for the thrill, and as Tough shows, people may just be curious.Eldon Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer wrote the last theory I chose to tie in with Paul Tough's passage; it is called Social Aspects of Sport. Snyder and Spreitzer wrote about how the thousands of people that cheer, jeer, panic and riot at a sporting event all felt as if they were one. Snyder and Spreitzer's theory is broken down into 3 parts.The first part of the theory is the "Contagion Theory of Collective Violence." The theory says that if one person in a crowd at a game is doing something, then it may cause others to join in and do the same thing. The spreading of violence is totally random. For example, one person starts chanting for his team, then another joins in. Maybe five rows over someone else joins in, and so on and so on. This can go on until everyone is infected or until only a small percentage is infected...
