PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Road Rage
16 May 2012
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Put together in the late 30s, early 40s. It suggested that frustration was the emotion that people will experience when their progress towards a goal was somehow compromised. They thought that this frustration would somehow make them aggress. According to this model, all aggression was caused by frustration. It was thought that what aggression did was to reduce the drive that was created by frustration (there was a cathartic element to it). Agression could be towards the source of the frustration, or displaced. Displacement could occur when it was not safe to be aggressing against the target of the frustration. This also served the purpose of reducing the drive to aggress further. This letting out of one"s anger was called catharsis , and was defined as the reduction in one"s need to aggress further. We begin with a goal-pursuit that leads to frustration. This experience in frustration leads to the drive to aggress.
