Aggression: Reaching Out to Tough Someone

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Aggression Reaching Out to Tough Someone
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Theories of Aggression

• modern theories

Input variables
Behavior
Internal Processes
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Social Input Variables

• Rates of violence
• Prime time
• Saturday am
• of tv programs are violent
• of these no remorse, no negative
  evaluation or consequences

• Minorities
• Gender
• Sex-stereotyping
• Obesity
• School achievement

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Social Input Variables

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Social Input Variables

• Frustration
• Provocation
• Media Violence

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Personal Input Variables

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Personal Input Variables

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Personal Input Variables

• Personality Type
• Hostile Attributional Bias
• Narcissism
• Gender Differences

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Personal Input Variables

• Personality Type
• Hostile Attributional Bias
• Narcissism
• Gender Differences

• Age
• Low Empathy
• Testosterone

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Situational Input Variables
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Situational Input Variables
-5 15 35 55 75 95
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Situational Input Variables
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Situational Input Variables

• Temperature/pain/crowding/deprivation
• Alcohol
• Aggressive Cues

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Aggression theories

• Reformulated Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
• Excitation Transfer Theory
• Cognitive Neo-association Theory
• unpleasant feelings prime a network of negative
  associations
• All similar in that behavior is reaction to
  arousal
• How well do these ideas work?

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Social Rewards Theories

• Social learning perspective we learn to be
  aggressive by watching others
• Media effects
• but mostly correlational findings
• Violent sports
• Homicides increase after championship fights
• Glamorized military violence -- war heroes
• Cycle of violence -- children learn at home
• Abused children 4x more likely to abuse

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Culture of honor

• Cohen Nisbett (1997), Nisbett (1993)
• People are raised within a value system that
  includes aggression for transgressions
• a socio-cultural view
• Southern Western states
• may also apply to ethnic sub-cultures
• Laws that accept violence
• Culture that necessitates retaliation