PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Restorative Justice, Reactive Devaluation, Field Experiment
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Intro 1994 april 6, genocide, rwanda and darfur. Many acts of aggression involve a mix of hostile and instrumental motives. Certain situations release peoples aggressive tendencies: certain genes predispose people to aggression only when certain circumstances occur, heat. Moods and actions are closely tied to the weather. Spike lee"s movie: do the right thing, its hot our there folks from radio. Heat and aggression, anger raises the temperature of body. Violent crime rates are higher in southern france than southern italy. Reason why? as temperature of earth rises, people might expect to see increases in violence throughout the world during el nino years in tropical countries, when weather is especially hot and dry, likelihood of civil conflict rises dramatically. Attributional processes, people are unaware they are aroused by heat. So people normally attribute the person they are raging on: media violence. Western media are saturated with images of aggression.
