PSYCH 2C03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Catastrophic Injury, Inclusive Fitness, Emotional Dysregulation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2C03
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

Document Summary

Intentional behavior aimed at someone to cause them pain: can be physical or verbal, not the same as assertiveness. Hostile aggression: act of aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inflicting pain or injury. If player thinks team is playing dirty, may be angry and want to purposely cause pain. Instrumental aggression: aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain in football, must tackle other team, uses aggression, does not mean to inflict pain. Men are more likely to be reported as aggressive than women. Why are males more physically aggressive: testosterone, in order to protect a family, jealousy, increased paternity certainty. Gender differences are largest for physical aggression. Eagly & steffen (1986) on why from srt perspective. Found that women, when given the opportunity to be physically aggressive in a lab setting (shocking), (cid:396)epo(cid:396)ted a lot of guilt a(cid:374)d a(cid:374)(cid:454)iet(cid:455) doi(cid:374)g it; as opposed to (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)"t.