PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ingroups And Outgroups, Gender Equality
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Daily objectives: define aggression, frustration-aggression hypothesis, biological and cultural factors that contribute to levels of aggression, evidence for in-group cognition in infancy and childhood. Humans are ultrasocial (among the most social species also ants, termites, bees, etc. ) Ultrasocial organisms form large societies, divide labour, and cooperate for mutual. We need to be in large groups benefit. Social psychology- study of the causes and consequences of being social. Aggression is behaviour with the purpose of harming another. Why: to protect resources (for survival) Aggression and cooperation both serve the same purpose: survival. Frustration-aggression hypothesis: animals aggress when their desires are frustrated. Frustrated in this case means when some desires/needs are being denied by another person: some argue that this hypothesis is too narrow, humans may aggress because of fun or sickness or being moody. Individual differences in aggression: some humans are more likely to aggress, what factors, personality, hormone changes, genetics, environmental factors (e. g. culture, societal expectations)
