PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Gossip, Relational Aggression, Curbed
13 Oct 2018
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Aggression is the intentional action aimed at doing harm or causing physiological or psychological pain. Many psychologists agree that it"s both biological and learned. Arguing that it"s innate, we can look at nonhuman animals. Cats innately finding and killing rats is an example, but the fact that aggressive behaviour can be curbed by early experiences is seen in kuo"s experiment, where he raises a cat with a rat and there"s no aggression. Bonobos are also called the make love not war ape. We"re like both our closest primates- we can attack when we feel threatened, but we can also suppress aggression when we need to. So we have the capacity for aggressive behaviour, but how we express that is learned. In a culture of honor; even small disputes put a man"s reputation of roughness on line, leading him to act aggresively: lab studies: less aggressive ppls families hadn"t herded for generations.
