Zusammenfassung der Ressource
8.3 Violence
- Definitions
- Aggression=
Sequence of
behaviour with goal
of
dominating/hurting
other individual
- Violence=
Aggressive act,
abuse of
individual
directly/indirectly
- BLOA: Hormones
- Testosterone
- Evolutionary aspects.
Sexual arousal and
aggression. Dominace &
Status seeking
- Bernhardt
- Positive correlation between high
levels of testosterone and
antisocial behaviour in males (low
socio-economic status)
- Mazur and Booth
- Levels of testosterone rise in
athletes before competative
matches
- Seratonin
- Bernhardt
- Low seratonin levels + High
tesosterone levels =
Aggression
- Low levels of seratonin = Aggressive behaviour
- BLOA: Frontal-lobe abnormalities
- Grafman
- Veterans from Vietnam war suffering from
penetrating head injuries and control group.
Rating aggressive behaviour by questionnaries
and scales and family observations. Patients
with frontal-lobe abnormalities having a higher
violence scale than controls.
- CLOA
- Factors
- Social environments,
anti-social behaviour, social
schemas, negative views of
one self.
- Cultivation theory
- Violence in media, showing
children that violence is
acceptable/normal behaviour
(social learning theory)
- Theory of threatened egotism
- Baumesiter and Bushman
- Questionnaries to measure
self-esteem (narcissism).
Participants writing and essay,
receiving either good or bad
feedback. Time-reaction test,
slowest receiving blast of noise.
Aggression highest among
narcissits having received ad
feedback.