aggression

aggression

1. social

   • Bandura bobo doll study
     • 72 children-males were more aggressive
       • lacks ecological validity
         • High interal validity
   • Bandura's second study
     • Positive Reinforcemant and negative punishment
       • lacks ecological validity
   • Incomplete
     • Soft determinism
       • Moral implications
   • Deindividuation
     • zimbardo (lab coats and hoods)
       • gynocentric
         • Deiner
           • Trick or treaters
             • lacks ecological validity
               • Practical applications
                 • too simplistic
                   • deterministic and incomplete

2. institutional

   • Zimbardo's prison study
     • face validity as they actually saw the behaviour
       • ethical issues
   • Harer-58 black inmates
     • lacks temporal validity 1996
       • living conditions have improved and they aren't deprived anymore
   • incomplete
     • deterministic
       • practical applications as prisoners don't wear uniforms

3. Neural and hormonal

   • Phineas gage
     • Pre frontal lobe
       • Case study
   • Wagner
     • mice and castration
       • Extrapolation
   • Deterministic
     • Too simplistic
       • Practical applications
         • Alternative theories

4. Genetics

   • Mednick
     • 4,000 danish children
       • Ethnocentric
   • McGue
     • Mz and Dz twins
       • 54 pairs and 0.43 ans 0.30
         • Lacks population validity
           • Lagerspetz
             • Aggressive mice and non aggressive mice
               • selective breeding
                 • extrapolation
   • Determinstic
     • incomplete
       • moral implications

5. Evolutionary

   • Miller
     • 44 battered wives and 55% for jealousy
       • Problems with validity
         • As they may not want to tell the truth
           • Shackleford
             • 461 males and 560 females
               • Mate retetion tactics
                 • self report methods
   • deterministic
     • moral implications
       • Avoids gender bias

6. Group displays

   • Baylock
     • only focus on one aspect
       • Warfare
         • Alternative agency theory
           • lynch mobs
             • kkk
               • Alternative deinidivation
                 • owed threat hypothesis
                   • social dominance
   • incomplete
     • moral implications
       • derterministic