Psychology 3720F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ethology, Hot Sauce, Real Face
27 Apr 2015
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March 3 2015- lecture 1 in term 2. There is nothing more threatening to humanity as humanity itself lewis thomas. Humans are the most violent creatures on the earth, aggressions occurs between nations, strangers, friends, family members. Difficult thing to define precisely, psycholgosts haven"t been able to agree on a single definition: definition of aggression: (geen page 3 has one, another definition proposed by. Baron in 1979 and another was defined by berkowitz 1993); piece all three definitions into one. Definition: any form of direct or indirect behavior that is intended to physically or psychologically harm another human being who is motivated to avoid such treatment. Nearly all definitions include the concept of intention; drawback comes with this though: we don"t know what another person"s intentions are. Aggression is a slippery concept; hard to pin down precisely. Aug 1 1966, charles went to the top of a 20 story building at the university of texas.
