PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Attribution Bias, Sociobiology

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 210
• Professor: Rod Gillis

Document Summary

Aggression: historical perspectives, causes of aggression, bullying (repeated abuse, the prevention and control of aggression. Definition: intentional infliction of harm on another person. Does not include accidental harm or harm to inanimate object or animals unless intended to hurt another person. Types of aggression: physical, verbal, passive, internet. Could be insults directly to person, or about person. All bad things stem from thanatos, the death instinct: can be directed toward others: war, killing, etc, cane be directed toward self: suicide, depression. Opposite of this is eros, which is the life instinct. Ants, wasps, bees: social insects in which there is a strict hierarchy. This can be applied to human social behavior. Men more promiscuous because it is more advantageous to reproduce as much as possible; women more particular because has responsibility of raising offspring. Studies evolutionary advantages of all kinds of social psychology, not only aggression: drive theories. A need drive state efforts to reduce drive.