PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Interpersonal Attraction, Biopsychosocial Model, Longitudinal Study

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Marie- Lyne Laliberte

Document Summary

Article 30 comfortably numb: desensitizing effects of violent media on helping others. Article 29 from jerusalem to jericho: a study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behaviour. Although there are several different definitions of aggression, social psychologists tend to define it as follows: A physical or verbal behaviour that is intended to cause either physical or psychological pain to someone. There are three main ideas in that definition: the presence of a behaviour, hence omission/negligence does not constitute aggression. The intention to harm someone needs to be present: the nature of the harm caused to the person can be either physical or psychological. Emotional abuse, belittling someone, threatening someone: it has to be noted that many social psychologists consider threat to reputation or social relations, a third type of harm caused to a person. Behaviours that employ damage to relationships, or the threat of damage to relationships, as the vehicle of harm.