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.