PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Aggression, Road Rage, Aggressive Driving
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Aggression is behavior either physical or verbal which is intended to hurt someone. Human aggression is behavior targeted and carried out immediately to cause harm to another human being: perpetrator must believe that the behavior will cause harm to the target, target needs to be motivated to avoid the behavior. Aggression resulting from immediate emotions such as being impulsive or hot headed. Planned out aggression, this is clear and calculated anger. Designed by arnold buss and mark perry in. 1992, scores can range from 29 to 145, higher scores indicated more aggressive behaviors. The questionnaire has 4 scales physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility. The main dimensions were level of damage, intentions of the harm-doer, ability to prevent damage, consistent, significant and independent effects of subjective feelings of anger. Psychology aggression is built into human beings; it is not learned it is a common pattern: frustration-aggression theory arises from goal directed behavior being blocked, main cause of aggression.
