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Agression and Antisocial BHVR
Agression and Antisocial BHVR
• Unpleasant environments
– Hot temperatures and unpleasant
environmental events increase aggression
– Crowding (unpleasant feeling that there are
many people in a given areas) is a strong
predictor of aggression
• Chemicals influences
– Hormones (e.g., testosterone) and
neurotransmitters (e.g., serotonin)
– Alcohol and other drugs of abuse
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Food for thought
• Wounded pride
• Aggressive individuals do not have low self-esteem
but high self-esteem. When someone questions
this esteem that is when aggression may occur.
Eg. Adolf Hitler
• Narcissistic people are likely to aggress when they
receive a blow to their ego.
– Violent individuals typically have the trait of
narcissism
• Culture of honour
• Society that places high value on individual respect,
strength, and virtue, and accepts and justifies violent
action in response to threats to one’s honor
• honour killing supposedly restores the family’s
honour from the disgrace caused by a woman
refusing to accept an arranged marriage, seeking a
divorce, having sex before marriage, or committing
adultery.
• Humiliation seems to be the cause of violence in
cultures of honour.
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Other antisocial behaviour
• Stealing
– Employees steal from employers
– Customers shoplift
– Identity theft is the illegal use of another
person’s personal information to gain
– Stealing is more likely in the presence of others
who steal.
– Deindividuation is the sense of anonymity and
loss of individuality, as in a large group, making
people especially likely to engage in antisocial
behaviours such as theft.
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Other antisocial behaviour (cont’d.)
• Littering
– We can reduce litter by changing norms,
the social standards that prescribe what
people ought to do.
– Injunctive norms are norms that specify
what most others approve or disapprove of
and can reduce litter.
– Descriptive norms are norms that specify
what most people do; they are not helpful in
reducing littering.