Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Motor Vehicle Theft, Road Rage, Relative Deprivation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Irene Cheung

Document Summary

Aggression: any physical or verbal behaviour that is intended to harm another person, not to be confused with assertiveness. Violence: aggression that has extreme physical harm as the goal (e. g. , injury, death, all violent acts are aggressive, but not all aggressive acts are violent. General aggression behaviour that is intended to injure someone punch, insult. Hostile aggression aggression stemming from a negative emotional state road rage, bar ght. Aggression aggression that is motivated by goals other than harming the target armed robbery, Inborn or learned: freud: eros (instinct towards life) and thanatos (instinct towards death, aggressive energy needs to be released in some way, if the energy is not released, people will become mentally ill. Evolutionary argument: genetically preprogrammed into men so that they can perpetuate their genes, two reasons, dominance over other males, ensure mate(s) are not copulating with others. Evolutionary theory of aggression: aggress to impress (griskevicius et al. ,