SOP 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Passive-Aggressive Behavior, Anti-Social Behaviour, David Buss
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Aggression: aggressive behaviour, any behaviour directed towards the goal of harming another living being who is motivated to avoid such harm (baron and. Richardson: assertiveness, behaviour intended to express dominance or confidence, violence, aggression that has as its goal extreme physical harm, such as injury or death. That is, hurtful stemming from angry feelings: instrumental: cold , premeditated, calculated harmful behaviour that is a means to someone practical or material end. Out of this conflict arises a hydraulic buildup of aggressive energy that must be spent through catharsis. Can be spent positively or negatively - but must be spent: lorenz - ethological theory, also hydraulic (generates own energy) fulfills a basic evolutionary function. Aggression occurs due to a buildup of aggressive energy that is provoked by some stimuli. We have developed ways to harm but little inhibitions not to: the frustration - aggression hypothesis, berkowitz developed a model based on aggressive cues.
