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d) Training in Social Skills : One of the reasons why individuals 
indulge in aggression is that they lack some form of social skill. 
There is a communication breakdown. Research has shown 

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that individuals, who lack the social skill of communication, self-
expressions are insensitive to the feelings and emotions of 
others and are likely to become more aggressive. Helping such 
individuals to learn appropriate communication skills, to learn 
expressive modes of frustration and to become sensitive to 
emotional feelings of others will considerably help to reduce 
aggression. 
 
e) Incompatible Response : All organisms (including human 
beings) are incapable of engaging in two incompatible 
responses at once. For e.g., it is impossible, both to day dream 
and balance your checkbook. Similarly, it is difficult (if not 
impossible) to feel depressed and elated at once. The term 
incompatible response technique has been used by Baron 
(1993) to refer to this process. It is a technique for reducing 
aggression in which individuals are exposed to events or stimuli 
that cause them to experience affective states incompatible with 
anger or aggression. Extending this principal to the control of 
aggression, it seems possible that such harmful behaviour can 
be reduced through the induction (among potential aggressors) 
of response incompatible either with overt aggression itself or 
with the emotion of anger. In fact, a growing body of research 
evidence suggests that this is the case. When angry individual 
are induced to experience emotional states incompatible with 
anger or overt aggression such as empathy, mild sexual arousal 
or humour, they do show reduced levels of aggression.