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
