Chapter 7

Key Terms

Aggression: forms of behaviour that are deliberately intended to harm or injure someone else.

Reactive aggression: forms of aggressive behaviour triggered by the anger created by a perceived provocation; also described as hot-tempered aggression.

Proactive aggression: forms of aggressive behaviour planned in advance to achieve some goal; also described as cold-tempered aggression.

Weapons effect: an increase in aggression produced by the sight of a weapon (e.g., gun).

Hostile expectation bias: the bias to expect aggression from others in ambiguous situations.

Coercive cycle: a pattern of behaviour within families in which aggression by one family member produces an aggressive response that leads to an escalation in aggression.

Testosterone: a hormone present in much greater quantities in males than in females; it has been linked to aggressive and sexual behaviour.

Weblinks

International Society for Research on Aggression
http://www.israsociety.com/

A TED talk by Steven Pinker on the decline of violence
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html

Albert Bandura talking about the Bobo doll study, including video clips of the experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmBqwWlJg8U

Children, media, and violent times – a video examining how the "good and evil" rhetoric, in the media, has helped children to dehumanise the enemies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CggjBd7o-PM&feature=related

How do video games affect behaviour? – Dr Michael Rich discusses in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsMFsdS3aqU&feature=related

An article from WebMD about guns increasing aggression levels in men
http://men.webmd.com/news/20060728/guns-up-testosterone-male-aggression

Craig A. Anderson’s web page with more about his research and links to articles on aggression research
http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/index.html

A TED talk by Jim Fallon looks at some of the biological causes of aggression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2V0vOFexY4

An article exploring the parent child coercive cycle
https://www.pendletonpsych.com/doc/parent-child-coercive-cycle.pdf

Bentley, E. (2009). Aggression. In M.W. Eysenck (Ed.), A2 level psychology. In this chapter, Evie Bentley covers the topic of aggression in a comprehensive way
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781848720091/