PSY220H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hit By Pitch, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Nonviolent Video Game
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Aggression is an intentional action aimed at doing harm or causing pain to another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment: hostile aggression is done with the intention of directly inflicting harm onto an individual. Instrumental aggression is harming an individual in the process of attaining some other goal. We tend to respond to direct provocation with aggression, and often act more aggressively in relation to the initial provocation (ex. the gang quote if you stab me, i"ll shoot you . We tend to not reciprocate aggressively if we attribute provocations to. Frustration unintentional factors (i. e. it was only an accident) Frustration is the internal state that accompanies the thwarting of an attempt to achieve some goal. In a study, a confederate cut in front of a participant waiting in line to see a movie. The participant was either 2nd in line or 12th in line. The participants who were 2nd acted more aggressively towards the confederate.
