PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Ronald Reagan, Social Rejection, School Shooting

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark W Baldwin

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Hostile aggression: behavior motivated by feelings of anger and hostility. Main goal: harm one another physically or psychologically. Instrumental aggression: harm one another in the service of motives other than pure hostility. i. e. to gain status, be wealthy. Angry people referred to as "boiling over" "steamed" weather increases anger because of accelerated heart rate and increased distribution of blood to certain areas, such as the hands. Aroused by heat but unaware of the extent to which hot weather is the source of their arousal. Instead attribute the arousal to the person encountered. Violence in the media is sometimes imitated in real life. i. e. taxi driver copycat president reagan murder attempt. Studies: participants watch aggressive movie and then have an opportunity to be aggressive. Works but in lab, not really applicable to real world violence like rape. Watching aggressive tv as child > more likely to commit crime in adulthood. Watching violent porn > rise in aggression on women.