SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Normative Social Influence
21 Mar 2018
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Not just physical violence: what causes aggressive behaviour, motivators. What motivates us to be aggressive: aggression as instinctual. Falls in the realm of evolutional theory. Children act aggressively but the intent is not the same: frustration-aggression hypothesis. This theory posits that (1) every frustration leads to an aggressive act and (2) every aggressive act is a result of some past frustration. This needs to be taken into consideration when looking at this hypothesis: aversive emotional arousal. Aversive/ negative/ discomforting emotions are the cause of aggression when they want to lash out. Aggression reduces or eliminates the negative emotion: social learning and aggression. People can learn aggression is a means to get what they want. Targets of aggression: gender - the type of aggression. Race - more likely to be aggressive towards someone of the same race: whether there was intent - when something is done by person a" on purpose,
