15. Aggression

Question 1

Assessor

Answer 1

if your ability is greater, play the hawk (active, aggressive strategy), if not play the dove (more display than actual attack and quick retreat when this turns out to be unsuccessful)

Question 2

Retaliator

Answer 2

if you are smaller, only display unless attacked, but if attacked strike back.

Question 3

Aggression in animals

Answer 3

A type of (social) behaviour that either threatens or causes harm and damage to another organism with the ultimate goal to render the individual less able to compete for resources and increase its own fitness – a form of social communication in a biological context
–> infanticide is an extreme form of aggression since it has a biological/evolutionary purpose

Question 4

Definition violence

Answer 4

A pathological form of aggression that is not under inhibitory control, and has lost its biological function in social communication with extreme harm/damage (e.g., death) of the opponent as goal.