Aggression/Keywords/Categories

Types of anti-social behaviour

• Aggression
• Cheating
• Stealing
• Littering

Types of aggression

• Hostile - hot, impulsive
• Instrumental - cold, premeditated
• Passive - harming others by withholding a behavior
• Active - harming others by performing a behavior
• Physical vs. Psychological

Aggression theories / factors

• Evolutionary
• Instinct (thanatos)
• Social learning
• Drive theory & the frustration-aggression hypothesis
• Aggression-catharsis hypothesis
• Relative deprivation theory
• Personality
• Unpleasant moods
• Anger
• Excitation-transfer
• Cognitive
  • Stereotypes
  • Prejudice
  • Schemas
  • Scripts
  • Attributions
    • Hostile attribution bias
    • Hostile perception bias
    • Hostile expectation bias
• Age
• Gender
  • Males - more hostile (esp. ~puberty)
  • Females - more relational
• Stress
• Selfishness
• Domestic & relationship violence
• Means to solve social dispute
• As a form of social influence
• Sexual motivation
• Sexual excitation/arousal-transfer
• Domestic
• Displacement
  • Triggered displacement
• Aggressive cues
  • Weapons effect
• Mass media
• Unpleasant environments
• Chemical
  • Genetic makeup
  • Hormones - e.g., Testosterone (high)
  • Neurochemical - e.g., Serotonin (low)
  • Alcohol
  • Nutrition
• Direct provocation & reciprocity norm
• Self
  • Self-control (low)
  • Wounded pride (violent individuals)
  • Narcissism
  • Disinhibition
    • Learned disinhibition
  • Sexual arousal / pornography
• Culture
  • Norms
    • Injunctive
    • Descriptive
  • Values
  • Honour
  • Humiliation
• Crowd mind / behaviour
  • Deindividuation
  • Emergent norm theory
  • Social identity

References

• Based on Ch09 Aggression textbook chapter.