PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Proof, The Selfish Gene, Reciprocal Altruism
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Aggression: any behavior aimed at causing either physical or psychological pain. Hostile aggression: aggression in which causing pain or harm is the only goal, the end you"re trying to achieve is making the other feel emotional or physical pain. Instrumental aggression: aggression in which the pain or harm caused is a means to some other goal. Robbing a bank(in it for the money), winning a sport (may need to hurt popular on the other team), self-defense. The exact same behaviour could b e either of the two, depending on what the person who does it is. Gossiping you to hurt you and climbing the social hierarchy. Lots of examples of higher temperatures related to higher observed rates of aggression. Graph of yearly total of murder and rape, peak in the summer. Its coming from source a but misattributed to source b: feelings of discomfort caused by the heat may be misattributed to other people.
