SOP-3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sex In Film, Homicide, Relative Deprivation
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Key words; aggression, indirect aggression, direct aggression, emotional aggression, instrumental aggression, catharsis, displacement, excitation-transfer arousal, relative deprivation, Indirect aggression: intent to hurt someone behind their back. Direct aggression: hurting some face to face. Emotional aggressions: hurtful behavior that stems from feeling angry/ frustrated. Instrumental aggression: using aggression to achieve another goal. Can overlap between the 2 dimensions, but not overlap within the dimension. Men are more physically aggressive (direct aggression). Women are more likely to participate in indirect aggression. Women are just as likely as men to attack their romantic partners. People are aggressive because: natural selection because it could have been useful in the past, humans have an innate urge to be aggressive and it needs to be released. Catharsis: anything that helps release aggression without participating in the aggression. Displacement: how we might channel our feelings of angers and frustrations from something on to something else unrelated. (physical typically)
