Finally, some oft-cited studies looked at how aggressive subjects would be to an opponent in a game (e.g., the volume of loud noise they would choose to blast the other player with). Such aggressiveness was increased when subjects had first read a passage mentioning God or the Bible, relative to passages without that; aggressiveness was increased even more when subjects read a passage about biblical vengefulness sanctioned by God versus the same description of vengefulness without the divine sanction.[34]
