PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Facial Symmetry, Psych

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Nature vs. nurture: aggression is in our nature - no, aggression is in our nurture - no, aggression is a combination of both. Problem with instinct theory is that we cant define what instinct actually is. The drive to bring an organism to nothing/to destroy an organism. Unexpressed emotions build up pressure which must be expressed to relieve that pressure. It is healthy to express our aggression freud, but we have to channel it properly: evolutionary perspective of aggression: Human warfare originated in attempts to obtain valuable resources. Gender differences in patterns of mate selection. Men look for attractive women: facial symmetry, youth. Women look for self-sufficient men: social status, power, generally older men. Men can theoretically impregnate every woman on earth, women can only bear children a limited amount of times, so they have to choose wisely whom to mate with: biochemical and neural influences on aggression. Amygdala, an area in the brain associated with aggression.