Motivation and emotion/Book/2011/Aggression

Introduction
Where has the reader encountered aggression?
 * Within him or herself?
 * Within others?
 * Friends?
 * Family?
 * In a stranger?

A self-test
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Why was this chapter written, and why read it?

 * To explain or understand aggression
 * To to describe how to or to effectively manage aggression
 * The perils of unchecked aggression!

What does one mean by management of aggression
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Definition

 * Agression : Definition

Levels (or perhaps types) of aggression:

 * Violent aggression
 * Verbal aggression
 * Passive aggression
 * Agressive attitude - 'go-getter'?

Differences

 * Individual differences
 * Differences in social and cultural understandings and perspectives on aggression

Origins
From whence does aggression emerge within the individual at any given time? From whence does aggression come in a more theoretical sense?
 * Immediate biological processes
 * Immediate social and environmental processes

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Understanding from whence aggression comes and its purpose
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Biological Explanations

 * Genes
 * Description
 * Summary

Chemical influences

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Social and environmental causes

 * Unusual circumstances (e.g. presented with 'justification')
 * The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
 * Basis (i.e. scapegoating etc.)
 * Problems
 * Contradictions
 * Empirical evidence?
 * Social Learning Theory
 * Script Theory
 * News media
 * Entertainment (music, TV, games etc.)
 * General Aggression Model (GAM) - segue here using games
 * Cultural factors
 * Broad anthropological perspective
 * Across/within cultures
 * Time?
 * 'Aggressionism theory' - the historical perspective (N.B. this may be a waste of space - other page or drop?)
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Evolutionary Understandings

 * Link together the various biological elements
 * Link together the various social and enviromental theories
 * Is there an answer?
 * What can be said with confidence?
 * Evolutionary purpose
 * Place in society?
 * In past?
 * Today?
 * By culture
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Summary

 * Purpose
 * Use?
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Management

 * What might one/others exhibit or experience?
 * What might one/others ultimately want?
 * Is there a healthy experience or use of Aggression?
 * How can this be achieved through management?
 * In others
 * In self
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