Aggression, Attraction, and Conflict Resolution

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Aggression, Attraction, and Conflict Resolution
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Agenda

• 1. Bellringer Video game discussion (10)
• 2. Aggression and Conflict (15)
• 3. Farmville Murder Article (10)
• 4. Aggression Test (10)
• 5. Dollar Auction (10)
• 6. Information to know
• First Test on Chapters 1 and 18 will be on
  October 1st.
• Study guide will be posted on Friday, you will
  receive a print version in class.
• Reading Quiz for Chapter 18 will be on Friday.
  You may use Chapter outline and Notes for this
  assessment.

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Bellringer

• Do you think watching violent movies, playing
  violent video games, or listening to violent
  lyrics in music make people violent?
• How do you deal with frustration or aggression?

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Aggression

• Aggression can be any physical or verbal behavior
  intended to hurt or destroy.
• It may be done reactively out of hostility or
  proactively as a calculated means to an end.

Research shows that aggressive behavior emerges
from the interaction of biology and experience.
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The science of aggression

• Aggressive personalities may have genetic
  components
• Aggression can come from multiple places in the
  brain it is not found in one central location
• Higher levels of testosterone increases
  aggressive behaviors

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Psychology of aggression

• Frustration-aggression principle frustration
  creates anger. If you are blocked from a certain
  goal by something that seems unfair or
  frustrating you might feel some aggression.
• Example Vending machine eats your money or the
  paper you spent all night working on didnt save.
  

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Environment
Even environmental temperature can lead to
aggressive acts. Murders and rapes increased with
the temperature in Houston.
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Learning that Aggression is Rewarding
When aggression leads to desired outcomes, one
learns to be aggressive. This is shown in both
animals and humans.
Cultures that favor violence breed violence.
Scotch-Irish settlers in the South had more
violent tendencies than their Puritan, Quaker,
Dutch counterparts in the Northeast of the U.S.
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Observing Models of Aggression

• Sexually coercive men are promiscuous and hostile
  in their relationships with women.
• This coerciveness has increased due to television
  viewing of R- and X-rated movies.

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Acquiring Social Scripts

• Why might violent music and games be a problem?
• The media portrays social scripts and generates
  mental tapes in the minds of the viewers.
• When confronted with new situations individuals
  may rely on social scripts they have seen. If
  social scripts are violent in nature, people may
  act them out.

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Summary of Aggression
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Conflict

• We all face conflict at times
• Its caused by an incompatibility of actions,
  goals or ideas
• Can have destructive results such as
• Social traps a situation in which conflicting
  parties pursue their own goals causing
  destructive outcomes no positive results
• Example You may not recycle all the time, but
  because so many people dont we have a huge
  pollution problem

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Blame the Enemy

• Many times when in conflict with another person
  or group, humans tend to demonize the other side.
  
• The fundamental attribution error is usually at
  play
• What is the fundamental attribution error?

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Attraction
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The Psychology of Attraction

1. Proximity Geographic nearness is a powerful
   predictor of friendship. Repeated exposure to
   novel stimuli increases their attraction (mere
   exposure effect).

A rare white penguin born in a zoo was accepted
after 3 weeks by other penguins just due to
proximity.
Rex USA
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Psychology of Attraction

• 2. Physical Attractiveness Once proximity
  affords contact, the next most important thing in
  attraction is physical appearance.

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Psychology of Attraction

• 3. Similarity Similar views among individuals
  causes the bond of attraction to strengthen.

Similarity breeds content!
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Romantic Love

• Passionate Love An aroused state of intense
  positive absorption in another, usually present
  at the beginning of a love relationship.

• Companionate Love A deep, affectionate
  attachment we feel for those with whom our lives
  we are closely apart of for a long period of time.

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Altruism

• An unselfish regard for the welfare of others.

• Equity A condition in which people receive from
  a relationship in proportion to what they give.
• Self-Disclosure Revealing intimate aspects of
  oneself to others.

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Bystander Effect

• Tendency of any given bystander to be less likely
  to give aid if other bystanders are present.
• Ex. Kitty Genovese Case

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Cooperation

• Superordinate Goals are shared goals that
  override differences among people and require
  their cooperation.

Syracuse Newspapers/ The Image Works
Communication and understanding developed through
talking to one another. Sometimes it is mediated
by a third party.
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Communication

• Graduated Reciprocated Initiatives in
  Tension-Reduction (GRIT) This is a strategy
  designed to decrease international tensions.
• One side recognizes mutual interests and
  initiates a small conciliatory act that opens the
  door for reciprocation by the other party. (give
  and take)

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Closure

• Think of three things you can do to avoid
  conflict and conformity?