Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Social Rejection, Relative Deprivation, Hobo

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Mike Morrison

Document Summary

Aggression: intentional behaviour aimed at causing either physical or psychological pain. Hostile aggression: an act of aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inflicting pain or injury. Instrumental aggression: aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain. There is intention to hurt the person but the hurting takes place as a means to achieving some goal such as a defensive lineman in football. Boys tend to be more physically aggressive than girls. Girls tend to us more relational aggression such as excluding people, talking behind their backs, gossiping, and backstabbing. Women are more likely to act violently towards their romantic partner physically. However, they tend to do less severe acts such as threatening. Women are most often the ones injured in fights between romantic partners. Men are mostly aggressive to other men, even strangers. When too much testosterone, a male sex hormone, is present it is associated with aggression.