PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Physical Attractiveness, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Psy

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Christopher Niemic

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Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy. Can be a reaction, he did me wrong so i"m gonna hurt him. Can be pro-action, calculated means to some end. Frustration is the blocking of our ability to achieve a goal. Pitchers were most likely to hit a batter when frustrated. When the previous batter hit a home run, 2 when the same batter hit a home run, 3 when a member of the pitcher"s team was hit by a pitch. Repeated exposure to novel stimuli produces liking to that stimuli. 4 equally attractive women attended 200-person class either 0 days, 5, days or 15 days. At end of class, researchers showed slides of the women to the class and asked to rate them on attractiveness. The women who attended the class the most was rated the highest. Female college students were shown 2 pictures of themselves. 1 showed their mirror image and 1 showed what they actually look like.