Aggressive_Tendencies

Aggressive Tendencies It’s difficult to think about why people intentionally harm other individuals, however, several theories attempt to explain human aggression. Some hypothesize that aggressive behaviour is not simply an innate quality but a part of our personality that is learned. The belief that all humans are instinctively aggressive offers little insight into methods of reducing anti-social behaviour. By looking at how aggression is formed through experience, however, we can make inferences into what type of people are more likely to aggress and the factors that perpetuate an aggressive personality. I believe that aggression is most predominant under 3 conditions: (1) under high levels of frustration (2) when there is a payoff in response to acting out and (3) when it is learned through observation. Because the frustration-aggression theory and the social learning theory offer insightful clues into the development of aggression, I will discuss them in detail. The frustration-aggression theory posits that feelings of aggression are brought on when we are prevented from obtaining a goal. This theory basically claims that the loss of control and lack of power, emotions that typify frustration, lead to aggression. Several factors can increase frustration and, accordingly, will increase the probability that some form aggression, aggressive, behaviour, theory, violence, likely, learning, learned, frustration, through, people, act, social, several, person, payoff, over, out, models, levels, individuals, human, however, gets, control, because, anti-social, aggress, acting, ways, way, viewers, under, toy, think, therefore, sky-rage, show, reward, results, research, repeat, reinforcement, receives, personality, payoffs, parents, one, occur, observing