Agression

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Agression

21coping

Build empathy

Training in communication and problem solving skills

modeling non agressive behavior

Apology

20Venting versus self-awareness

19Venting vs self-awareness

18Blaming the victim of our aggression

17Aggressive acts and Subsequent aggression

16Catharsis and agression

Direct aggression towards source of anger does not reduce further aggression

reverse is true

aggressive behavior does not reduce need for further aggression

15 Harsh punishment

14Does punishing agression reduce agressive behavior

Threat of mild punishment more effective

might induce

Punishers model

13 Sexual violence

when a woman says no she doesn't mean no.

Sexual scripts

male role: be persistent

traditional female role: resist advances

when women know their assailants they may not label it as rape

Characteristics of Sexually agressive men

Accuse women of provoking them

inability to empathize with women

Feel hostility

Narcissistic

12 Does violence and sex sell?

No impairs memory,

11 learn to behave agressively: social learning theory

cause and effect

both

watching make people aggressive

Aggressive people prefer violent tv

longitudinal effects

Heavy television viewers

Greater fear of being Personally assaulted

exaggerated view of degree of violence

elementary school children more agrression less prosocial at end of year

predict violence in adolescence and adulthood

Dehumanizing effects

reduced sensitivity to needs of others

indifference

decreased sensitivity

Social scripts: ways of behaving Socially that we learn from culture.

media violence

Primes aggressive ideas and expectations

Triggers imitation

increases physiological arousal

Imitation and aggression bobo doll experiment

10 Aggressive objects

Gun vs badminton racket

Provocation

will not reciprocate

mitigating circumstances

Provocation unintentional

when provoked people may reciprocate

Frustration-aggression theory -the idea that frustration the idea that you are being prevented from attaining a goal increases aggressive response.

likelihood reduced when frustration understandable legitimate Unintentional

Unexpected - more aggression

Goal proximity more aggression

relative deprivation discrepancy between what people have and what they think they should have

Evidence: Barker,Dembo and Lewin (1941).

Children in frustrated group showed aggression when allowed to play

Size, ability to retaliate, proximity

7BPhysiological influences on aggression

Discomfort

heat,humidity, odors

Pain

Alcohol

why?

expectations about effects of alcohol influences behavior more than amount of alcohol drunk

Disrupts ip

reduce inhibitions

violence among intimate partners

high school - emotional abuse

elementary school evidence of abuse of girls by boys

Gender

females relational agression

males more physical

Cultural argument: Agression expression depends on circumstances and culture

Culture of honor: Southern white males

New Guinea vs Europe

Is agression innate or learned?

chimpanzees vs bonobos

kitten raised with rat

Evolutionary perspective: males more agressive

Why?

Hostile vs instrumental agression

Def: Intentional behavior aimed at causing pain/harm