The articleintroduced the implicitsocialcognitivemethodsof human aggressionresearchandshowedtheimportanceof human aggression researchfrom the view of the implicit social cognition.
Granted, the U.S. Supreme Court didn't buy that argument in 2011 when it considered a California law regulating the sale of violent games to minors, and criticized the quality of the research attempting to link violent games with aggression more broadly.
The idea was to create a lifelike subject with controllable wings, as part of research testing a hypothesis about male displays of aggression in the species.