Psychology 2070A/B Lecture 9: Chapter 11

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Michael levy, 18 years old was dancing with this girlfriend at a birthday party when he was swarmed by vicious teens who assaulted him. Punched, bottled, sprayed with mace, then severed his spine with an axe. In an article : kids who kill documents homocides in which teens were charged with murder. For social psychologists, aggression is intentional behavior aimed at causing either physical or psychological pain. Aggression: intentional behaviour aimed at causing either physical or psychological pain. That living being may be a human or an animal, and the harm may be physical or mental: finally, under normal conditions, we would expect the target of the behaviour to attempt to avoid the harm-doing. Aggression: an intentional action aimed at doing harm or causing pain. Whether or not a harmful action succeeds in its goal, it is still aggression. Hostile aggression: an act of aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inflicting pain or injury.