PSY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Exclusion, Homicide, Social Learning Theory
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The perception that you have less than you deserve less than what you have been led to expect or less than what people similar to you have. Feel the urge to reciprocate, after being provoked by aggressive behaviour from another person. There are mitigating circumstances, which are known at the time of the provocation. Social exclusion as a cause of aggression o o o o. Being excluded from a group of peers can lead to considerable aggression (twenge, et al. , 2001) This may explain why a child experiencing rejection from classmates on a daily basis ends up reacting with extreme aggression. Social exclusion has been cited as one of many causes of uprising in london in 2011. Social exclusion can also motivate us to form new social bonds. Aggressive objects as a cause of aggressive cues: an aggressive stimulus is an object that is associated with aggressive response (e. g. a gun) Its mere presence can increase the probability of aggression.
