PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gini Coefficient, Homicide, Amygdala
2 Dec 2016
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Human aggression: behaviour used to harm someone or something; on continuum of intentionality (low to high); usually in response to internal or external frustration; in either direct or indirect form; and in either verbal/ social or physical form. Conflicts reported in daily diaries) vs in-lab (ex. Hot sauce test: next participant drink hot sauce with water, how much hot sauce do they put in? putting in a whole lot shows ho(cid:449) (cid:373)u(cid:272)h aggressio(cid:374) the(cid:455)(cid:859)re feeli(cid:374)g to(cid:449)ards next participant. More commonly measures via: extreme tantrums, chronic non-compliance, intense reactions to limit-setting, immature expression or control of emotions (behar and. Testosterone peaks during periods when humans are most aggressive (ex. Adolescence) and his higher in men than women (who are more aggressive). X4 normal amount in bloodstream), increases number aggressive actions of already-aggressive organisms. Animals who were already aggressive increased behaviour, rather than aggression coming out of nowhere. Casual order: t1 testosterone does not predict t2 aggression.
