APA 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Home Advantage, Moral Disengagement, Brain Tumor

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2140
• Professor: Jennifer Brunet

Document Summary

Lecture 7: aggression and moral behaviour in sport. Factors that influence moral behaviour: social environment: influenced by coach, motivational climate: mastery vs. performance climate, team norms: standards or expectations that influence behaviour, goal orientation: task vs. ego orientation. A night in the life of pee wee hockey: how would you define these following acts, mark, one of the admirals" top players, slams jeff a. Sabres forward, into the boards to keep him away from the puck (instrumental: jeff retaliates by swinging his stick and smashing. Theories/ models of causes of aggression: psychodynamics/ instinct theory. Individuals refrain from behaviours that violate their moral standards: eight mechanisms of moral disengagement, moral justification, euphemistic labelling, advantageous comparison, displacement of responsibility, diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, dehumanization, attribution of blame. Situational factors: frequency of competition: teams that play more frequently, home advantage: mixed support, point differentials: mixed support. Additional considerations re: aggression in sport: fan aggression.