PSY 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Psy

• School: Eastern Oregon University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 453
• Professor: Dr. Charles Lyons

Document Summary

What is antisocial behavior: by antisocial behavior we understand the set of behaviors, practices or actions that have as their objective the disturbance of the social order or the aggression to it . In the same way, all those discourses that promote this type of act are also considered part of antisocial. However, all of them are aimed at altering the established order: the fact that there is so much flexibility regarding the interpretation of certain behaviors as antisocial behaviors is a problem in today"s society. In addition, there is a perception that in recent years the number of antisocial behaviors has increased considerably, it may be that in response to the changes and social and economic phenomena experienced. 2: however, there are a number of factors that can be useful in evaluating and distinguishing performance as antisocial: Assessment of the severity of the acts: evaluation of the performance in terms of distancing from the socially established.