DYNAMICS OF AGGRESSION INDICATORS IN PEOPLE IN PRISON DURING LUNAR MONTH

Abstract

Influence of the lunar cycles on human activity and functional state remains a subject of debate. Research objective: identification of aggression indicators with use of the Bass-Darky method in individuals who were in prison in the dynamics of a lunar cycle. 298 people have been examined. One of problems of work - check of a hypothesis that actual lunar rhythms don't influence human state and the result of such influence is their coincidence with the cycles of a geo-heliophysical origin. Use of the moving average method and the spline method allowed to obtain curves of the aggression indicators during the lunar cycles and in their different quarters. It has been established that just before the full Moon, the indicators of indirect aggression, irritability, suspiciousness and sense of guilt had the maximum values, during the full Moon, the level of verbal aggression was the highest, after the full Moon period, the values of physical aggression were the highest. Sensitivity and negativism increased in the beginning of the II and IV quarters of the Moon. The second quarter of the Moon was a period of a synchronous increase of all aggression indicators except for physical aggression which was maximum in the IV quarter. The majority of the aggression indicators correlated with the dynamics of the Kr-index of the geomagnetic field recorded during the lunar month with a delay log 6-8 days, and for the indicator of physical aggression - with an advance of 2 days.