Adam Clarke www.brain-freeze.co.uk AGGRESSION TOPIC 1 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF AGGRESSION Social learning theory and deindividuation Learning from direct experience: aggressive behaviour may develop as a result of operant conditioning, where an individual is rewarded for being aggressive, thus being encouraged and reinforced to perform that behaviour in future. For example, if Josh ...

AN abnormal personality is one which deviates from its appropriate personality norm. Psychopathic personalities constitute a subgroup of abnormalpersonali-ties. Schneider (quoted by Kahn, 1931) has defined psychopathic personalities as those abnormal personalities who suffer from their abnormality or from whose abnormality society suffers. This definition points to a cleavage within the group w...

The study investigated interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions in relation to social behaviour in a sample of 59 5-year-old, 123 7-year-old, and 130 9-year-old children. Interpretive understanding was assessed by two tasks measuring children's understanding of ambiguous situations. Moral judgments and emotion attributions were measured using two moral rule transgre...

Dimorphism on dominance and agonistic behaviour in mammals tends to be strongly biased toward males. In this review, we focus on a select few species of mammals in which females are as or more aggressive than males, and/or are dominant to males, and explore the role of androgenic hormones in mediating this important difference. While the data are not as clear-cut as those published on tradition...