PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Leonard Berkowitz, Sexual Script Theory, Sexual Stimulation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Stephen Fleming

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In humans, two types hostile and instrumental aggression: hostile aggression springs from anger; its goal is to injure. E. g. murder: are impulsive and emotional outbursts. Some murders other violent acts of retribution and sexual coercion are instrumental: instrumental aggression aims to injure too but only as a means to some other end. E. g. terrorism, final goal is to compel liberal democracies to withdraw military forces. War: u. s. and british leaders justified attacking iraq not as a hostile effort to kill iraqis but as an instrumental act of liberation and of self-defence against presumed weapons of mass destruction. Hostile aggression is hot ; instrumental aggression is cool. Aggression is defined as verbal or physical behaviour intended to cause harm. Aggression manifests itself in two forms: hostile aggression, which springs from emotions such as anger and intends to injure, and instrumental aggression, which is a means to some other end. Freud: human aggression springs from a self-destructive impulse.