Experiements
This famous experiment by Albert Bandura showed children imitating aggressive behavior towards an inflatable doll.
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
What is Mean Girls?
This theory suggests that people can become less aggressive after expressing anger.
What is the Catharsis Hypothesis?
This environmental factor is associated with increased aggression during the Spring/Summer.
What is heat?
This technique encourages slowing one's breathing and focusing on the present moment to reduce emotional reactivity.
What is mindfulness?
This real-world case influenced ethical stanards in psychology after participants experienced extreme stress and aggression in a simulated environment.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This Taylor Swift song centers on betrayal and revenge between former friends.
This theory suggests that aggression often results from the blocking of goal-oriented action.
What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
This substance impairs judgment and lowers inhibition, increasing aggressive responses.
What is alcohol?
This technique involves removing a desired stimulus to decrease aggressive behaviors.
What is negative punishment?
In this study, participants administered what they believed were harmful electric shocks under authority pressure.
What is the Milgrim Experiment?
This game franchise allows players to engage in crime sprees, often involving violence and police chases.
What is Grand Theft Auto?
This theory/concept suggests that the mere presence of aggression-related cues (i.e. knife or gun) can increase aggressive thoughts, feelings, and responses.
What is the weapons effect?
Criticism, we consider unfair, sarcastic remarks, or physical assaults are all examples of this.
What is provocation?
Teaching clients to interpret ambiguous social cues in a non-hostile way targets this cognitive bias often linked to aggressive responses.
What is the hostile attribution bias?
This summer camp study demonstrated how competition over limited resources can lead to intergroup hostility.
What is the Robbers Cave Experiment?
This horror franchise centers on a night where all crime, including murder, is legal- illustrating unrestrained aggression.
What is The Purge?
This theory posits that intergroup aggression results from competition between groups for limited, valuable resources.
What is Realistic Conflict Theory?
What is testosterone?
Developed by Arnold P. Goldstein, this intervention program combines social skills, anger control, and moral reasoning to reduce aggressive behavior.
What is Aggression Replacement Training (ART)?
In this variation of the Milgrim study, partcipants showed the most aggression/obedience.
What is when authority figures were present (authority pressure)?
This type of aggression is goal-directed and calculated, often seen in strategic characters like Walter White.
What is instrumental aggression?
This is the oldest and most famous explanation for human aggression.
What are biological factors?
This describes a vicious cycle where family members, typically parents and children, inadvertently reinforce each other's negative and aggressive behaviors.
What is the Coercive Family Interaction Model?
Research on affective self-regulation suggests that interventions such as slow breathing or mindfulness reduce aggression by decreasing activity in this brain region associated with emotional reactivity.
What is the amygdala?