Chapter 10

Any behavior intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid the harm

Aggression

Behavior that either damages interpersonal relationships or is culturally undesirable

Antisocial Behavior

A society that palces high value on individual respect, strength and virtue, and accepts and justifies violent action in response to threats to one's honor

Culture of Honor

What type of people are more likely to cheat than their opposite?

Cynical people are more likely to cheat than non Cynical people

A sense of anonymity and loss of individuality, as in a large group, making people especially likely to engage in antisocial behaviors such as theft

De-individuation

Norms that specify what most people do

Descriptive norms

Any behavior intended to harm another person who is physically present

Direct aggression

In Freudian theory, the constructive, life-giving instinct

Eros

A response to stress that involves aggressing against others or running away

Fight or Flight Syndrome

Blockage of or interference with a personal goal

Frustration

Proposal that "the occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence of frustration," and "the existence of frustration always leads to some form of aggression."

Frustration-aggression hypothesis

People often use aggression to?

Get what they want

An external cause of aggression that proves temperature reflects the amount of aggressive crimes (being higher) would be?

Heat

tendency to perceive ambiguous actions by other as aggressive

Hostile Attribution Bias

The tendency to assume that people will react to potential conflicts with aggression

Hostile Expectation Bias

Tendency to perceive social interactions in general as being aggressive

Hostile Perception Bias

Any behavior intended to harm another person who is physically absent

Indirect aggression

Norms that specify what most others approve or disapprove of

Injunctive norms

an innate tendency to seek a particular goal, such as food, water or sex

Instinct

LOW OR HIGH levels of serotonin have been linked to aggression and violence in both animals and humans

Low

The exposure to to violent media causes people to behave MORE OR LESS aggressively afterwards

More

"cold", premeditated, calculated harmful behavior that is a means to some practical or material end

Proactive Aggression

"hot", impulsive, angry behavior that is motivated by a desire to harm someone

Reactive aggression

The feel good neurotransmitter

Serotonin

A response to stress that involves nurturing others and making friends

Tend and Befriend Syndrome

What are 3 chemicals that influence aggression

Testosterone, Serotonin, alcohol

In Freudian theory, the destructive death instinct

Thanatos

The increase in aggression that occurs as a result of the mere presence of a weapon

Weapons Effect

The male sex hormone; high levels have been linked to aggression and violence in both animals and humans

testosterone