Group Display of Aggression as an Adaptive Response
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- Created on: 18-04-14 13:59
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- Aggression-Group Display as an Adaptive Response
- Adaptive as beneficial for group Survival
- Lynch Mobs-Two Theories to Explain it
- 1. Power Threat Hypothosis
- Majority fear minority influence getting too powerful
- desire to maintain dominance
- Majority group displays extreme group aggression in order to maintain power
- Its an Adaptive response
- Lynch mobs = force of social control
- Its an Adaptive response
- -ve Research from South America found lynchings= people who did not pose a threat to anyone
- Deindividuation Theory more appropriate
- 2. Dehumanisation of victim
- Due to things such as;anonymity, enviro factors, identification with large group
- +ve Mullen analysed 60 newspapers =bigger the mob, the more violent
- -ve some lynchings occurred during the day time
- Lose of self-identity and moral responsibility when identity with group and group ideals
- Social Psychology theory and therefore an alternative explaination = AO2
- 2. Dehumanisation of victim
- Deindividuation Theory more appropriate
- Majority fear minority influence getting too powerful
- 2. Dehumanisation of victim
- Due to things such as;anonymity, enviro factors, identification with large group
- +ve Mullen analysed 60 newspapers =bigger the mob, the more violent
- -ve some lynchings occurred during the day time
- Lose of self-identity and moral responsibility when identity with group and group ideals
- Social Psychology theory and therefore an alternative explaination = AO2
- 1. Power Threat Hypothosis
- All yellow bits are AO2!
- Religious Displays
- ie
- Shia Muslims self-flagellate during the festival of Ashura with chains, knives or cutting forehead
- Arapesh Tribe boys have penis rubbed with stinging nettles and older boys its cut with pig incisors and bamboo razors
- Psycs. believe function= promote co-op and deterring free-riders
- Adaptive as closer knit groups have higher chances of survival
- Painful rituals show you're committed and reliable
- Cost Signalling Theory
- Group members who endure pain are showing how powerful they are
- Signal Commitment
- +ve Sosis
- Orthadox Jews - thick beards, hats and coats all year round
- Sweat loads = shows commitmence
- Orthadox Jews - thick beards, hats and coats all year round
- +ve Ruffle and Sosis
- Kibbutz men = more visible religious displays and more competative
- Womens Religious Displays are usually more solitary in private
- Kibbutz men = more visible religious displays and more competative
- +ve Sosis
- the closer knit they were, the more they went to war and were successful
- ie
- Painful rituals show you're committed and reliable
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