Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Homicide, Relative Deprivation, Longitudinal Study

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Isaacs

Document Summary

Aggression is defined as intentional behaviour aimed at either physical or psychological pain. True aggression involves intent to harm another person. Hostile aggression is an act of aggression stemming from feeling of anger and aimed at inflicting pain and injury. Instrumental aggression contains an intention to hurt the other person, but the hurting takes place as a means to some goal other than causing pain. Men are more likely to participate in physical aggression. Women and girls tend to express their aggression more covertly by gossiping and lying. Majority of people arrested for physical aggressive offences are men. Women are more likely to be arrested for property crimes. We seem to have an inborn tendency to respond to provocation by striking out against the perpetrator. Gender differences are minimal when test subjects were provoked. Human cultures vary in their degree of aggressiveness. European history consists of one major war after another.