Chapter 10 Flashcards
Rules of conduct that are agreed via consensus.
Conventional norms
Rules of conduct that are based on personal welfare.
Moral norms
Any behavior that violates the social norms of a particular culture.
Antisocial behavior
The moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome – maximized positive outcomes for minimized negative ones
Utilitarian
anger
The emotion felt when someone else is judged to have intentionally violated a social norm.
An emotion arising from a judgment about the moral standing of another person relative to oneself in terms of their general disposition to engage in acts that are deemed to be wrong.
Moral disgust
The tendency not to be sexually attracted, as adults, to people who we knew in the earliest years of life
Westermarck effect
Any behavior directed towards another individual that is carried out with the proximate (immediate) intent to cause harm
aggression
Aggression that is self-initiated and goal-directed.
instrumental aggression
Aggression that occurs in response to threat.
reactive aggression
Display signals that convey defeat (e.g. cowering)
appeasement behaviors
The decision whether to respond to a threat aggressively or to escape from the threat.
Fight-or-fight response
A mid-brain region involved in defensive
rage and modulation of pain.
Periaqueductal gray (also called the central gray)
A polymorphism of the MAOA (monamine oxidase A) gene linked to low activity of the enzyme product, and associated with increased aggression (particularly in males)
Warrior gene
A hormone that affects brain development and also directly acts on neurons to affect behavior
testosterone
