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Aggression Flashcards

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What is aggression?

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A verbal or physical act intended to cause harm to people who wish to avoid such harm or property

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Evolutionary approach to aggression

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  • Humans are instinctively aggressive
  • Spreading genes through sexual access
  • Explains disproportionate degree of male aggression
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Limitations of evolutionary approach

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  • Many species do not reward aggression
  • Cannot explain aggression against genetic kin
  • Hypotheses are not really falsifiable
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Cathartic approach to aggression

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  • Conflicting human drives, eros (creation, love) and thanatos (destruction)
  • Thanatos energy builds up and needs to be released (hydraulic model)
  • Aggressive outputs directed outwards
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Limitation of the cathartic approach to aggression

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  • Frustration does not always lead to aggression
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Who did the frustration-aggression hypothesis?

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Dollard et al. 1939

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What is the cognitive neoassociationalist model of aggression?

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  • Frustration -> anger -> aggression

- Cues are associated with aggression through classical conditioning

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Berkowitz & Lepage (1967)

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  • Ppts given shocks by fellow ppt
  • Given opportunity to shock back
  • Two independent manipulations, level of anger (how many times they shocked), and presence of aggressive cue (guns/no guns)
  • More shocks in high anger and cues condition compared to high anger, no cue
  • No difference in shocks in low anger and cue / low anger and control condition
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What is the social learning theory of aggression?

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  • Aggression learned via operant conditioning

- Models teach that aggression provides rewards and is socially acceptable - instrumental aggression

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Bandura, Ross & Ross (1963)

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  • Nursery school kids observe adult attack a ‘Bobo doll’ when upset, in person, in a video, in a cartoon and control
  • Kids mildly frustrated, then left with toys
  • More children were aggressive when seeing live model, video and cartoon, than in the control
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Social roles explanation of aggression

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  • Stanford prison experiment
  • Young upper/middle class, educated, European American men for a prison study
  • Questioned to eliminate those with health problems, antisocial behaviour
  • Study ended early after guards became aggressive towards prisoners
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Socio-cultural norms in explanation of aggression

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  • Societal norms and authorities sanction and reward aggression
  • State actions/sports/media portrayals
  • Exposure to norms promotes aggression through various mechanisms
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Exposure to norms promotes aggression via…

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  • Cultivation of world view (word as hostile)
  • Attributions of hostility (individuals as hostile)
  • Scripts of aggression (how to respond)
  • Instrumentality (aggression is rewarded)
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Archer & Gardner (1978)

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When countries participate in war, the homicide rates among the civilian populations increase

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Phillips (1983)

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After highly publicised boxing matches, homicide rates increase among civilian populations

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Leyens et al. (1982), Eron et al. (1972)

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Exposure to violent media increases aggression among children

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Personality and ideological explanation of aggression

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Personalities and ideologies influence choice to be in a particular situation and the behaviour in that situation

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Dispositional aggression

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Propensity for hostility and anger

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Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)

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Belief in authorities and authoritarian aggression

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Social dominance orientation (SDO)

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Support for group-based hierarchy (and aggression to maintain it)

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Dispositional empathy

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Tendency to take others’ perspectives (less tolerance for aggression)

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Carnahan & McFarland (2007)

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  • Placed 2 different advertisements for ppts
  • One advert stated prison life other didn’t
  • Measured on aggression, RWA, SDO, and empathy
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Carnahan & McFarland (2007) results

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  • Empathy was highest, followed by SDO, RWA and aggression

- All measures were higher in the prison condition than control except for empathy

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Frustration-aggression hypothesis

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If aggression cannot be targeted at the cause of the frustration (as the person is too physically or socially powerful, or the cause is a situation) it may be redirected onto a more realistic target

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Weapon effect

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Weapons not only provide a means to cause violence, they also increase the likelihood that an act of violence will occur

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Excitation-transfer model

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  • Zillman (1984)

- Arousal in one situation can carry over into a completely different situation

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Traits associated with aggression

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  • Irritability
  • Rumination
  • Emotional susceptibility
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Friedman’s personality types

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  • Type A - ambitious, high-achieving, perfectionists, in a rush to achieve their goals
  • Type B - relaxed, uncompetitive and creative
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Which personality type shows more aggression when threatened

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Type A

30
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Alcohol expectancy theory

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People hold certain expectancies about how alcohol affects behaviour, we generally believe that alcohol leads to extroversion, less inhibition and more aggression

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Situational norms affecting aggression

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  • Temperature
  • Crowding
  • Noise
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Temperature

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  • Increased temperature increases aggression

- Heat leads to physical arousal, discomfort and irritation, can spark aggression

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Affective aggression

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Purpose of aggression is to cause harm

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Instrumental aggression

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Aggression serves a different purpose (e.g. a robbery)

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Crowding

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  • Increase in crowding increases aggression
  • Increases physical arousal, discomfort and irritation
  • People are also deindividuated in crowds
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Noise

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  • Loud, unpredictable noises increase aggression

- Increases psychological arousal and stress levels

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Relative deprivation

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If an individual feels they are being unjustly disadvantaged compared to others, and believes they aren’t able to improve their disadvantaged means, they may act aggressively

38
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Staircase to terrorism

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  • Moghaddam (2005)
  • Ground floor - perceptions of relative deprivation
  • First floor - perceptions of procedural justice
  • Second floor - displacement of aggression
  • Third floor - adoption of alternative moral code
  • Fourth floor - categorical thinking and perceived legitimacy
  • Fifth floor - the terrorist act

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