PSY BEH 104S Chapter 13: CHAPTER 13

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 104S
• Professor: Paul Piff

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Any infliction of physical, emotional, or psychological pain on another. No: is spanking a child aggression, hostile aggression: ultimate intention is to inflict pain, harm, instrumental aggression: infliction of pain is a means to an end to serve a. Continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short . It is part of our genetic, species-typical makeup to be aggressive: aggression provides adaptive advantage. Most famous advocate was konrad lorenz (1963: inter-species vs. intra-species aggression, inhibitory mechanisms (technology) Organisms may have evolved to be aggressive, but they also evolved to evaluate whether the aggression is appropriate (costs vs. benefits) Technology of aggression: makes it easier, minimizes the cost of being identifiable for example (cyber bullying) Instinctual theories predict that human aggression should be. Steven pinker analyzed homicide rates, death as a result of war, etc. Genetic factors: temperament & impulsivity (e. g. caspi et al. , 2002)