SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Normative Social Influence
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Aggression: actions where there is intent to harm another. 4) social learning and aggression: aggression as instinctual. Essential to our species survival: frustration aggression hypothesis. This theory posits that 1- every frustration leads to an aggressive act and 2- every aggressive act is a result some frustration. Don"t always need frustration to be aggressive. Thursday, march 15, 2018: aversive emotional arousal. Aversive emotion as the cause of aggression. Aggression reduces or eliminated the negative emotion - relieves the emotions (punch pillows or throwing eggs) Observing others committing similar acts - abusers will come from aggressive families. Aggression can bring desired outcomes - satisfaction (lunch money) Race - within race rather than between race. Whether there was intent - if someone has intent to harm you, then you might react with intentful aggression. Whether there might be retaliation - if the target is going to retaliate you might not be as aggressive.