PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Homicide, Reactive Devaluation, Paracetamol

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

Document Summary

Hostile aggression: beh motivates by feelings of anger and hostility. Instrumental aggression: beh that is intended to harm another in the. Explanations of aggression vary according to whether the behavior is (cid:1) (cid:1) hostile or instrumental (cid:1) and aim to harm another, physically or psychologically (cid:1) service motives other than pure hostility. May be to gain status, attract attention, acquire wealth, advance political and ideological causes (cid:1) likelihood of agg action only in certain circumstances (cid:1) (cid:1) Genes may predispose ppl to agg but these genes increase the. Anger literally raises temperature of the body. Violent crimes rate are higher in southern areas. The number of hot day is a strong predictor of elevated violent crime rates but not nonviolent crime rates. Ppl are more violent in the us during july and august. The avg american child watches 2-4 hours of tv per day, 90% of which. By age 12, saw more than 100,000 acts of violence.