PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hot Sauce, Psy, Psych
4 Aug 2020
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Experiencing negative effects of any kind which evokes aggression related thoughts memories feelings and ideas. Hot climate is correlated to violent crimes. If person is aware of the physiological effect from heat, it has no effect on. Curvilinear at extremely high temps aggression decreases. Pain, pollution, crowding, noise etc. can lead to increased aggression. Mere presence of an object associated with aggression can increase aggression. When the gun was present in the room, participants delivered more shocks. Having a gun in the house is reported to triple risk of being killed. Aggression is influenced by the intensity of the arousal and the type of emotion produced by the stimulus. Any type of arousal can be interpreted as aggression if a person is in a situation that cues aggression. If we"re physiologically aroused for whatever reason, and if our environment tells us we"re angry, we"ll act aggressively.
