PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Personality Disorder, Copycats, Intolerable Acts
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There is ample evidence of the long history of human involvement in aggression and violence: not all aggression is violent in the physical sense of that word. Some social psychologists define aggression as the intent and attempt to harm another individual, physically or socially, or, in some cases, to destroy an object: this definition seems adequate, but it has several limitations. Refusing to speak does not fit well, since it is not an active attempt to harm someone, nor is blocking someone"s entry harming someone. Most psychologists place these two behaviours in a special category of aggressive responses, and call them passive behavior, since they are generally interpreted as aggressive in intent, although behaviour is passive and indirect. Two types of aggression hostile and instrumental, a distinction was first made by feschbach (1964), they are distinguished by their goals, or the rewards they offer the perpetrator.
