Summary Chapter 10: aggression and antisocial behaviour
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Course
SLK 220 (PSYCHOLOGY)
Institution
University Of Pretoria (UP)
This document includes detailed notes regarding chapter 10 that covers aggression and antisocial behaviour, as well as examples to fully understand the concept.
These notes were made using the following textbook:
Baumeister, R. F., Bushman, B. J., Ally, Y., de Sousa, D., Dhlomo-Sibiya, R.
M., Hermann, C., Mbatha, K., Nienaber, A., Schwär, G., Shirinda-
Mthombeni, K., and Silinda, F. (2018). Social Psychology: South Africa (1st
Edition). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 9781473751415.
, Chapter 10: Aggression and Antisocial Behaviour
Introduction:
• Rwanda genocide: illustrates important points about aggression and
violence
o Mass media can promote aggression
o Frustrated people can violently lash out at the source
o Aggressors often dehumanize their victims
o Violent actions can have unintended consequences
o Forgiveness is possible, even for the most extreme actions
• Early psychological theories
o Depicted aggression as the outburst of powerful inner forces
• More recent theories
o Consider aggression as a kind of strategic behavior used to
influence others, get what one wants, and defend certain
ideas seen as under attack
• Pessimistically, there is a great deal of aggression in the world.
Optimistically, many situations that could lead to aggression do not
Defining aggression and antisocial behavior:
• Aggression: any behavior intended to harm another person who is
motivated to avoid the harm
o Displaced, direct, indirect, reactive, or proactive
o Bullying and cyberbullying
• Antisocial behavior: behavior that damages interpersonal
relationships or is culturally undesirable
• 3 Important features Behaviour, intentional/ deliberate & Victim
attempts to avoid. Behaviour intended to harm is aggression, even if
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