Agression

AGRESSION: HURTING OTHERS

Influences on Aggression

Media Influences

I. Pornography and Sexual Violence

Effects of repeated exposure:

• Decrease attraction for one’s partner

• Increase acceptance of extramarital sex and women’s sexual submission to men

• Increase men’s perceiving women in sexual term

A. Distorted Perceptions of Sexual Reality

B. Aggression against women

Remedies, perhaps

• Information Education Campaign

• Media Awareness

II. Television

Effects on Behavior1.Increased aggressiveness

Arousal

Disinhibition

Imitation

2. Desensitization

“...children typically witness 32,000 murders and 40,000 attempted murders by the time

they reach the age of 18.”

•Fear

Effects on Cognition

Basic outlook and sensibilities

Predisposition to violence and hyperactivity

I.Q

Critical thinking

Self- image

Distorted perceptions of reality

III. Group Influences• Amplify aggressive reactions

• Magnify aggressive tendencies

• Polarize aggressive tendencies

• Accentuate natural aggressive behavior

Reducing Aggression

• Catharsis

• Social Learning Approach

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