Instead, research has shown that they have higher aggression levels after a game, Bushman said.
But if Bushman hadn't landed at Stuyvesant this story might well have had a different ending.
He is survived by three sons, eight grandchildren and his second wife, Barbara Bushman.
The firm offered her a choice: "I could take the mommy track or go for it, " Bushman says.
Tavaner Bushman, a News21 fellow who recently completed her masters at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, reports.
Bushman's first assignment, while a student-teacher in 2002, was at Louis D.
"He said, 'You're probably never going to be a star on Broadway, but there are plenty of stars on Wall Street, '" Bushman recalls.
Bushman's students, among the best and the brightest in the New York City public school system, notice that the index rarely rises above 10%.
As the advanced-placement economics students file into Room 339 at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan, Clarissa Bushman displays a graph on the overhead projector.
"The catharsis idea -- that's a common explanation that Aristotle gave, that by viewing great tragedies, audience members could purge or cleanse their emotions, " Bushman said.
"When unavoidable situations arise, realize they are just short-term holdups to your exercise program, not permanent derailments, " says Barbara Bushman, a professor at Missouri State University's Department of Kinesiology.
Violence as entertainment has existed for thousands of years, from the ancient Egyptians watching re-enactments of the murder of their god Osiris to the Romans' gladiator games, said Bushman.
Nine years ago Bushman left a job managing bond traders at Lehman Brothers, the last of her three stops on Wall Street, to take classes at Fordham University under the aegis of the New York City Teaching Fellows program.
David Bushman, a curator with The Paley Center for Media in New York City, said the amount of programming is to be expected, given the magnitude of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.
The attraction of violence could be that it gives people "a chance to experience taboo -- events that they can't experience in their own lives -- or see things they don't see in their typical life, " said Brad Bushman, professor of communications and psychology at Ohio State University.
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