Talk:Anti-social behaviour

message: in the intro to the article, this was said:
In common English vernacular; anti-social is often used to describe those perceived to be excessively introverted, an incorrect though increasingly common usage. The correct term for an introverted person who is "not social" would be asocial; asocial means "avoidance of society" while antisocial means "hostile toward society".
Over exposure to media violence through various outlets such as television, movies, Internet, video games, and cartoons can contribute to antisocial behaviour by desensitizing a person to violence which may lead them to behave in aggressive and antisocial ways.
^ section above seems fine although it doesn't cite any sources.
*Social media outlets and technology such a cellphones, texting, twitter, computer addiction, and social networking can also enable a person to feel comfortable communicating less in person and more behind the technology. Sociologists are perplexed by the impacts of social networking Web sites. A Stanford University study shows a correlation between the number of times one uses a social networking site and the level of one's social isolation. The study revealed that people who spend proportionately more time on these types of sites experience a reduction in contact with their friends and family, attending social events, and talking on the phone.
^ this section makes the common English vernacular mistake warned against earlier. The social isolation talked about in this Stanford University study is asocial behavior, not antisocial.
what should i do about this error? just delete the section? i have decided to do so. if you think i'm wrong discuss it here. 
--Jgrro (talk) 23:27, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in Media impact section 

message: Just wanted to make a clarification based on a couple of sources I found online about drunkenness and anti social behavior: 
http://www.sirc.org/publik/drinking4.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15265317
On Sirc.org:
"While these physiological and psychological correlates of alcohol consumption are not disputed, the effect of alcohol on affective or emotional processes is far more variable and complex, and results of experiments have proved inconclusive and unreliable. Effects on emotional states and specific forms of behaviour are clearly extremely hard to demonstrate, as to prove that alcohol produces, by way of action on the CNS, psychological changes which lead to particular behaviours, one must control for the influence of social and cultural factors and individual expectations regarding the effects of alcohol."
On BBC.co.uk:
"In high doses, alcohol impairs our reaction times, muscle control, co-ordination, short-term memory, perceptual field, cognitive abilities and ability to speak clearly. But it does not cause us selectively to break specific social rules...
The effects of alcohol on behaviour are determined by cultural rules and norms, not by the chemical actions of ethanol."
It is clear from these sources that the social effects of drunkenness are more cultural than they are physiological. Alcohol is pointed as also having a placebo effect, but as human beings, we still cognitively decide what we do socially when we are drunk.RustyIvory99 (talk) 19:49, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alcohol consumption doesn't directly cause anti-social behavior 

message: This term age-innapropriate is mentioned with scare quotes in the opening sentence of the article and seems irrelevant and weird. Most anti-social behaviors have nothing to do with age-appropriateness. Why is that in there, especially right at the start?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.235.73.30 (talk) 16:07, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age-innapropriate? 

message: In the development section on the main article, the development talked mainly about social media's influence on antisocial behavior however, it only talks about the correlations between factors. Correlation does not show true statistical relationships between things. Anything can be made into a correlation. For example, if you go on sites such as http://tylervigen.com/ and there will be random variables in which you can make your own correlations, you give the random variables and the site will produce a graph and statistics. Correlations aren't very unreliable, especially when talking about something with high importance.
Another thing is that is doesn't mention any key findings from infancy to adulthood. It also does not mention the non-aggressive behaviors. If there is any correlation to talk about, talk about the correlation between family problems, environmental effects, etc. If there is any disagreements or if there is anyway I can make a contribution to this article in this area, please let me know. Thank you! --LamearD (talk) 01:30, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questioning Development 

message: Not sure it has to be "age inappropriate", which suggests behaviour carried out in front of children which is inappropriate for them - anti-social behaviour can be committed against adults: indeed, is often used by adults to control the behaviour of teenage children.  In addition, I don't think it even has to be contrary to prevailing norms: the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in the UK defines anti-social behaviour as acting in a manner that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to anyone not of your own household: this could be absolutely anything.  Anything could cause someone else harassment, alarm or distress whether it was contrary to prevailing norms or not: emotion, i.e. distress, can be irrational and somewhat random, people can get upset over almost anything or what may appear to others to be nothing, but obviously isn't for that person, and it does not require prevailing norms to be breached for any individual to be caused distress. aspaa (talk) 23:19, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age inappropriate 

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message: The cited reference does not state that it is incorrect to to use anti-social to describe asocial behaviour. Quite the opposite, it describes an asocial behaviour and states that such behaviour may be described as asocial or anti-social, and that anti-social is "more often" (but not always) used to describe more extreme behaviour.
It seems like it would be more correct to say that the term "asocial" can only be used to describe "unsocialable" behaviour but that anti-social is an umbrella term covering both. In other words anti-social can be, but usually isn't, a synonym for asocial. This also agrees with every online dictionary reference I've consulted.
Examples:
* http://www.dictionary.com/browse/anti-socialhttp://www.dictionary.com/browse/anti-social
* https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/antisocialhttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/antisocial
* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisocialhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisocial
* https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/antisocialhttps://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/antisocial
* https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/anti-socialhttps://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/anti-social
None of those state that using anti-social as a synonym for asocial is incorrect, instead they explicitly list it as a synonym.  Theonefinn (talk) 07:37, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-social is frequently used, incorrectly, to mean either "nonsocial" or "unsociable". The words are not synonyms.[8] 

message: I've always believed antisocial was unhyphenated. Indeed, the sources I've checked—e.g. Merriam-Webster—indicate that. Is this a UK or other regional English spelling? And no, I'm not trying to be antisocial by asking. :?) – AndyFielding (talk) 11:18, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the hyphen? 

message: Its a lot of dangerious distrub social harmony people feels insecure when they have to suffer from these activitied. 103.121.172.15 (talk) 23:52, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti social activity 

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