Aggression before Versailles

Georges GARDARIN Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

On Aggression

Introduction All of us know what aggression is. But it is very difficult to define it. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1979), Vol.8, however, suggests a working definition: "Aggression is defined as an action that inflicts pain, anxiety, or distress on another, and is in the service of hostile motive or of the emotion of anger". This definition has the advantage that it includes the actions which...

Human Aggression

To put it very simply, Dr. Storr's message is this: aggression is something we cannot eradicate, but must learn to control. Without it, the human species could not exist; because of it, the human species faces extinction. Without it, the individual human being would be reduced to nothingness; because of it, he may inflict appalling suffering on himself and others of his kind. Granting Dr. Storr...

Human aggression.

Research on human aggression has progressed to a point at which a unifying framework is needed. Major domain-limited theories of aggression include cognitive neoassociation, social learning, social interaction, script, and excitation transfer theories. Using the general aggression model (GAM), this review posits cognition, affect, and arousal to mediate the effects of situational and personolog...

Signaling aggression.

From psychological and sociological standpoints, aggression is regarded as intentional behavior aimed at inflicting pain and manifested by hostility and attacking behaviors. In contrast, biologists define aggression as behavior associated with attack or escalation toward attack, omitting any stipulation about intentions and goals. Certain animal signals are strongly associated with escalation t...