According to the data yielded by this study, the researchers found each of their hypotheses to be accurate and to have correlated with each other in the study. First, people who exhibit higher levels of verbal aggression are more likely to engage in the use of aggressive humor. However, as stated in the text of this article, the implications of this finding needs to be subjected to further research. The authors believe more information should be sought out before confirming the effects verbal aggressiveness has on people’s aggressive behaviors. Second, individuals who scored higher on the social dominance orientation scale were also more likely to use aggressive humor. Bishop and her colleagues (2012) assert that “ethnocentrism and social dominance
