PSY 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hit By Pitch, Social Rejection, Homicide

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 210
• Professor: Marc Weintraub

Document Summary

Hostile aggression: nazis had hostility against jews and other people, behavior intended to harm another and motivated by anger and hostility. Instrumental aggression: harming with the motive other than pure hostility (getting wealth or attention) Hurting someone in hockey game to win the game, not to hurt that person in particular. Heat: higher temperatures = more aggressive behavior such as violent crime and baseball pitchers more likely to hit batters when it is hotter, feelings of discomfort caused by the heat can be misattributed. Kids in usa play too may video games. Playing violent video games appears to do many things (slide 9: correlation is not causation, slide 11 shows how some variables are missing in this research, copycat violence. People imitate aggressive acts and they are seen as justified: physically painful area of the brain lights up after rejection. Income inequality: extreme inequality in usa, more inequality leads to more homicides.