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Introduction
In trying to understand how aggression works, as well as aggressive emotions like anger, I decided to go to the animal literature. Human psychology research is all too prone to being determined by researchers’ preconceptions, and we all have a lot of firsthand experience and personal agendas when it comes to theorizing about human behavior. It’s easier to get some distance when thinking about animals; we have less stake in any particular theory of how animal emotions work. It’s also easier to set up experimental conditions with animals that would be hard to do ethically with humans, like keeping them in confinement and exposing them to stressors.
It’s an autumn Sunday, the low clouds and overcast skies promise rain. The Roanoke Sound is calm, though, and a light breeze from the northeast doesn’t seem to be disturbing the waters.
Jessica Taylor, executive director of the Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research and volunteer Barb Clark go about the business of launching the center’s research boat in a practiced, choreographed way. Once underway on the dolphin survey, Taylor mentions that it’s late in the season to see dolphins in the waters of Roanoke Sound, but there may be some changes in the migratory patterns.