PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tapper, Psych, Motel 6
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Inflicting harm or injury on another person or organism intended to hurt or harm them: violence. Receive 1 or many shocks regardless of actual performance. Subjects used shocks to evaluate the performance of the confederate. It usually increases aggression rather than reducing it, and can lead to displaces aggression: feeling better after blowing off steam is actually the problem with catharsis. The emotional reward reinforces the behavior and makes it more likely in the future. C: most accepted explanation: castle doctrine, southerners are more likely to believe that they have to defend their land/property and family"s honor, and that the federal govt is inefficient/untrustworthy, thus cultures of honor are higher among rural communities. They preferred the murderer: what about southern hospitality, southerners are known for being very polite, cohen hypothesized that southern manners and aggression are actually iii. correlated. In the north, people have no problem letting you know quickly that you"re pissing them off.
