PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intimate Partner Violence, Social Learning Theory, Relational Aggression
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Infliction of harm or injury on another person or organism intended to hurt or harm them b. Receive 1 or many shocks regardless of actual performance. More shocks = more anger: part 2 d. i. Subjects used shocks to evaluate the performance of the confederate e. Is there any strong evidence for catharsis? b. i. No. it usually increases aggression rather than reducing it, and can lead to displaced aggression c. 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. Ultimately, it increases aggression rather than reduces it: southern culture of honor, moving into sociological social psych a. i. A lot of social psychologists stay below culture" in their levels of analysis: question for culture of honor b. i. Why is it that the south is more violent than the rest of the country? b. ii. Higher argument related murders in the south b. iii.
