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Aggression Flashcards

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What is aggression?

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Intent to harm, injure another living being
who is motivated to avoid such treatment.

  • hurt, destroy somebody or yourself
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What are the types of aggression

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  1. Direct aggression (e.g. hitting)
    - Out-group hostile
  2. Indirect Aggression
    -intention but no direct consequence
    (e.g. refusing to help in an emergency - showing kind of aggression)
    -In-group Favoritism
  3. Hostile aggression (e.g. bloddy nose =physical harm)
  4. instrumental aggression ( passive aggression; superordinate goal, manipulation threat)
  5. Proactive aggression
    (e.g before you hit us, we will hit you)
  6. Reactive aggression
    -reaction respond
    -self-defend
    -legitimate
    (Hostile +Instrumental)
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Classes of Explanations for aggression

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  1. Biological
  2. Evolutionary
  3. Social Explanation
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Biological Explanation of aggression

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  • nature-nurture controversy

- innate action tendency

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aggression as an instinct

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  • pattern of response that is predetermined genetically

- driven by impulse

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Characteristics of an instinct

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  1. Goal-directed = has a specific consequence (e.g. attack)
  2. beneficial= for the individual and the whole species
  3. adapted= to a normal environment
  4. shared = by all members of the species
  5. Developed= clear way as the individual matures
  6. unlearned= made out of personal experience
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nature-nurture controversy

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discussion if some behavior is learned by environmental factors or genetically predetermined

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Psychodynamic self theory

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- Freud 
aggression builds up naturally through bodily tension
- self-destruction 
- redirection to someone else 
- need for release = one factor theory 
- innate death instinct (Thanatos)
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Ethnology

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study of instincts of a species in its natural social environment
(how people act in their natural environment)

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What is Ethnology about?

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  • behavior is genetically determined
  • control through natural selection
  • aggression triggered by environmental factor = releaser
  • survival value
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releasers

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specific stimuli in the environment that triggers aggressive behavior

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Two factor- conditional theory

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  1. innate urge to aggress

2. response depends on environmental stimulus (releasers )

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Evolutionary social psychology

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complex social behavior = adaptive + function to help individuals, kin and the whole species to survive

-innate basis of aggression
= all social behavior has an biological basis

-Darwinian theory: “survival of the fittest” transferring genes

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Biosocial explanation

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emphasis on innate component of behavior but not a fully instinct that influences the behavior

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Frustration-aggression hypothesis

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all frustration leads to aggression

all aggression comes from frustration

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Problem with Frustration aggression hypothesis

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  1. what is really frustration

2. what kind of frustration does really lead to aggression

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Excitation-transfer model

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  • mostly that you transfer any produced emotional arousal (i.e. aggression) by an experience to another situation (gym - parking space)

Function of aggression expression =

  1. learnt aggressive behavior
  2. arousal from another source
  3. interpretation of the arousal state (appropriate)
  4. arousal can transfer from a previous situation to another that can trigger aggression (if you tend to be more aggressive) +
  • lossing control over the arousal
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Social learning theory (Bandura)

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human social behavior can be learned from appropriate models

  • not innate
  • learning form direct experience
  • learning from vicarious experience
  • learning by modeling
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Process of social learning

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  1. Acquiring behavior patterns
  2. practicing the behavior in public
  3. keeping the behavior in long term
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learning by direct experience

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reward and punishment for a specific behavior

-learning through socialization

  • reward =higher likelihood that you will do the behavior again
  • modelling and imitation
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Learning by modeling

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  • you act and behave like your role model = observational learning
  • aggressive models = leads to imitation of behavior
  • learning a script (cognitive schema)
  • result: internalizing aggressive behavior
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Is it possible to modify or remove behavior ?

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yes if it is an learned behavior

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Individual differences for aggression

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  1. Personality
  2. Hormones
  3. Gender
  4. Catharsis
  5. Alcohol
  6. Disinhibition
  7. Deindividuation
  8. dehumanisation
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Personality factors

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age, gender,

  • self-esteem
  • frustration tolerance

situational context

  • previous experience with others aggressive behavior
  • success of own aggressive behavior in the past
  • likelihood of reward and punishment
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Type A- personality

Coronary-prone personality

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characterized by the heart disease

  • over-activeness
  • ambition to achieve things
  • excessively competitiveness
  • preference to work alone
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Catharsis

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release of aggressive emotion when you act against an object
replacement of the aggression to an object

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Catharsis hypothesis

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acting aggressively or only view aggressive material = reduction of aggressive emotion

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Characteristics of narcissistic people

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  • inflated self-esteem
  • feel that they are more entitled to things
  • prone to aggression
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Disinhibition hypothesis

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that learnt control mechanisms against acting antisocially, impulsively are weakened

e. g. alcohol impairs cortical control
- increase in more primitive brain areas

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Deindividuation

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losing sense of having a socialized individual identity

- more unsocialized, antisocial behavior

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Collective aggression

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group acts together against an individual or another group

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Problem with catharsis

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  • if you place your aggression on to another object you are more likely to act more aggressively afterwards
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General Aggression model

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combination of situational and personal factors + cognitive and affective processes for explaining aggression

-activation of internal states (affect, cognitive, arousal)

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What are Sociotal Influence/Factors?

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  1. disadvantaged groups
    - relative deprivation
    - fraternalistic deprivation
  2. Cultural norms
    - culture of honor
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Culture of honor

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culture that allows men to use violent behavior when they feel that they are threatened in their status or ego

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What is the role of the media related to aggression ?

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Desensitization
- social learning theory connected to children’s habits

  • promotion of violence and aggression through reading or simple exposure to aggressive content
  • automatic reaction process
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Desensitization

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you are less likely to respond to a presented material/scene that would usually provoke strong emotional feelings against it like violence or sexuality

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neo-associationist- analysis

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provided violent material by mass media my provoke/promote antisocial behavior later on

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Priming

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when you activate existing/accessible categories or schemas in your memory - influences how we behave when you get new information

  • mostly automatic process
  • arise of similar feelings linked to aggressive emotions
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Institutionalized aggression

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if the aggression is formally/informally accepted and recognized by the the government

  • integrated into the social structure (rules/norms)
  • Authoritarianism
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Agentic State

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state of mind that when you follow any given instructions without questioning them

transfer personal responsibility to the person who gives the orders

-distance yourself from responsibility

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What promotes collective group based aggression ?

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= consequence of societal uncertainty

-uncertainty about one’s identity as a group member –> leads to extreme violent protection behavior in favor of the the in-group

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What can you do to reduce aggression?

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  • not rewarding violent acts
  • avoiding physical punishment

interpersonal level:
- increasing optimism = behavior modification( skills training

  • Peace studies
  • educational promotion of non- violent behavior

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