PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: T-Cadherin, Monoamine Oxidase A, Machiavellianism
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Political agenda, getting money, hurting other team person to win: origins of aggression, few people are violent but there are murderous thoughts that exist more than we think, 1. Individual differences: narcissism over inflated self-importance, lack of considering for others. Instrumental: machiavellianism cunning and manipulative, use people for own gain. Levels of violence seen in tv don"t reflect levels of violence in the real world. November 25th 2019: violence & aggression against groups (out-groups, dehumanization the attribution of nonhuman characteristics and the denial of human qualities to groups other than one"s own, ex. Describing jews as rats and roaches: we can deny them, 1. Human nature: qualities that distinguish us from inanimate objects, capacity for emotion, feeling pain, expressing warmth, 2. November 25th 2019: cynical view - we help other people because human beings are selfish (i. e. , there"s something in it for us), human beings are selfish and there is always something in it for us, ex.
