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Aggression
- Social psychological explanations
  - Social learning theory
    - How?
      - Observation
      - Mental representation
      - Production
    - Who?
      - Bandura and Walters 1963
    - Bandura 1961
      - Bobo doll
        Experimenter group that had watched aggressive behaviour toward bobo dolls were more specifically aggressive
        Boys were more aggressive on top of this
      - This study does not show us why we aqquire the learnt behaviour
        Bandura 1963
        3 conditions, reward, punishment, indifference
        Presentation of aggressive behaviour depended on what condition they were in.
        
        Showing us the importance of VICARIOUS REINFORCEMENT
        
        Validity?
        Noble '75
        'Look mummy theres one of the dolls we have to hit
        Demand characteristics.
        
        Bandura responded to this by using live models and clowns
        Kids beat the clown up
    - IDA
      - Issues
        Socially sensitive research
        Tells us that we cause othes to learn aggresion
        
        Ethical issues
        Bandura used children
        
        Gender bias
        Indicates that males may be more aggressive but does not say how
        
        It does however explain culural dif.
        !Kunsan
        Agressive behaviour is rare due to lack of social acceptability of aggression
        
        Individual differences
        Agression levels vary because of context-dependent learning
        
        Just kids?
        Phillipps found daily homicide rates increased following a major boxing event
      - Debates
        Nature v. Nuture
        Research does not highlight the importance of genes and biological factors
        Though it does ackknowledge there existance
        
        Deterministic
        Can we not controll our behaviour or are we automatically going to act aggresivley because thats what we've seen?
        Freewill?
        
        Reductive
        Breaks down complex human behaviours into simply learning and reward
  - Deindividuation
    - Gustav Le Bon
      - Crowd theory
        Anonymity, suggestibility and contagion
        'collective mind' causing a loss of self control, becoming capable of acting against social norms
    - Factors that contribute
      - Anonymity (wearing a uniform)
      - Altered conscioussness
    - Process
      - Diminished self awareness
        Diminished fear of guilt
    - Evidence
      - Zimbardo
        1969
        Shocks adminstered by deinvidualised pps vs control group, the deindivdualised shocked more
        
        1972
      - Rehm german kids, hanball teams, those in uniforms were more aggressive
      - Mullen
        Analysed cuttings of 60 lynchings, he found
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