Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Hit By Pitch, Relational Aggression, Relative Deprivation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Graeme Haynes

Document Summary

Instrumental aggression- aggression as means to some goal other than causing pain. Culture and aggression: capacity aggression but how, whether and where express it is learned and depends cult and circumstances. Intoxicated ps reported more neg emotions thinking conflict and more neg perceptions partner"s feelings than barely any alch/ control cond (didn"t differ)- causal role exacerbating relationship conflict. Interpretation watching, personality predispositions, social context and other models all effect how respond but many more bio, social, economic and psych factors more powerful predictors agg behav. Learn control tempers and express anger constructively, feel better= calmer, not angrier. What are we supposed to do with our anger: actively enabling- using simple techniques (count to 10 before), deep breathes/ engaging pleasant, distracting activity. Defusing anger through apology: any apology sincerely given an perpetrator takes full resp effective reducing agg, men have a higher threshold for what constitutes offensive action warranting apology and rate actual offences less severe.