01:830:321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Narcissism, Psychological Pain, Ethology

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:321
• Professor: David Wilder

Document Summary

Aggression: physical or verbal behavior intended to cause harm: instrumental aggression: aggression that is a means to another end ( cool aggression, hostile aggression: aggression driven by anger and performed as an end in itself ( hot or affective aggression) Assault a person to steal money: instrumental aggression. Assault a person because of frustration: hostile aggression. Assault a person to steal money and then the person resists and you become frustrated: instrumental and hostile aggression. Reducing aggression (april 11th: predictors of aggression: gender. Method: teenagers from 11 countries read stories involving conflict among people. They were asked to write their own endings to each story. Results: in all 11 countries, young men were more likely to write endings that involved violent solutions to the conflict. Alcohol consumption + provocation greater aggression than provocation alone. Lower inhibitions: more difficult to evaluate intentions of others and consequences of actions (don"t think as well and more likely to misinterpret)