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PSY 321
Sanchez
Todays Agenda:
DEFINITIONS
CAUSES
AND DETERMINANTS OF
AGGRESSION
SPECIAL
REDUCING
AGGRESSION
Aggression
Aggression
Aggression
Aggression
Aggression?
aggression
gain
Attention
Self-defense
Types of Aggression:
Instrumental Aggression
Immediate
Long
conditions
term conditions
Opportunity
Rewards/
Costs
Aggression
as means
aggression
Types of Aggression:
Emotional Aggression
Immediate
Long
conditions
term conditions
Threat to
self
Anger
Aggression
as an end
Emotional Aggression:
A Case Study
(Katherine Newman, 2004)
School
shootings
Commonalities:
Perpetrators had low social
status, respect, and self-esteem
Communities were small, tightknit, and isolated
Associated masculinity = violence
The small-town social structure
prevented people from heeding
the warning signs
ear
Instrumental?
Emotional?
Maybe both mechanisms are operating in most
cases
Can
Homicide-by-gun
rate in America
Gender Differences
Universal
However.type
of aggression matters
to Harm
Direct
Relational aggression
Instinct theories
Freud
Darwin
Psychoanalytic theory
Death instinct vs. life instinct
Aggression death instinct is
turned outward at others
Evolutionary theories
Darwin
Genetic survival
Genetic selection for aggression
Freud
Social Learning
Theory (Bandura)
Modeling
Learn
how to behave
prosocially
Learn
how to behave
aggressively
Social Learning
Theory (Bandura)
Bobo
doll study
kids watched
adult beat up doll
kids not
exposed to the
behavior
Kids
allowed to play
with doll
Results??
Social
theories
Social learning theory
a better question may be
When
do people aggress?
Situational Factors
Study
Situational Factors
Frustration-aggression theory
Study
Situational Factors
Frustration-Aggression theory
Study
Situational Factors
Displaced aggression
Heat
In summer months
In hot years
In hot cities
Heat increases
to aggressive cues
Statistics
Catharsis Hypothesis
Television show
Video Games
Americas Army
Results of Study 2
6.85
6.8
6.75
6.7
6.65
6.6
6.55
Nonviolent
Video Game Played
Violent
Recent Meta-Analysis
Increased aggression
Decreased helping
Increased aggressive thoughts
Increased anger
Increased arousal
Short-term effects
Long-term effects