PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Doomsday Cult, Cognitive Dissonance, Interpersonal Attraction
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Interpersonal attraction: richard tremblay, his research is about aggression. He was highly regarded as a forensic psychology, he was interested in adult aggression. He noticed that if you want to study human aggression, you should study children. To understand the type of rage when we talk about violence and criminality, it is important to study children at a very young age. We learn how to inhibit and turn off rage. We learn how to behave aggressively by watching others: there are societal things that determine how much aggression we exhibit. Canada is a small fraction of what it is in the us. There are a number of factors that separate the two countries. It is important to keep in mind that there are two kinds of sexual material that can cause certain behaviour: violent pornography tends to elevate violent behaviour in men. Violent pornography suggests that rape is ok, that women want it.
