PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Beanball, Longitudinal Study, Promiscuity
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Relationship between heat and aggression is one of the oldest studies in social psychology. There is a weak correlation between heat and aggression. Study: baseball, heat, and aggression: we know aggression doesn"t case heat. When cotton prices drop, people are frustrated because this means the. Extremely strong correlation between cotton prices and lynching economy is bad. Anger is an emotional reaction that readies people to aggress. Frustration does not always lead to aggression. If there is an aggressive cue, frustrated people will aggress. Aggressive cues: guns, teams that wear black uniforms. Made no difference whether the bobo doll was beaten up live or on tv. Recall: cause = correlation + time order + randomness: correlation exists between watching violent tv and engaging violence, it is a very small but reliable correlation. If you look at people who have committed crimes, the amount that they watched tv correlates with how serious the crime is those who watch more tv commit more.
