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| Any behavior intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid the harm |
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| Any behavior that intentionally harms another person who is physically present |
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| Any behavior that intentionally harms another person who is physically absent |
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| "Hot", impulsive, angry behavior that is motivated by a desire to harm someone |
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| "Cold", premeditated, calculated harmful behavior that is a means to some practical or material end |
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| Aggression that has as its goal extreme physical harm, such as injury or death |
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| Behavior that either damages interpersonal relationships or is culturally undesirable |
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| An innate tendency to seek a particular goal, such as food, water, or sex |
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| In freudian theory, the constructive, life-giving instinct |
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| In Freudian theory, the destructive, death instinct |
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| Observing and copying or imitating the behavior of others |
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| Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis |
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| Proposal that the occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence of frustration, and the existence of frustration always leads to some form of aggression |
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| Blockage of or interference with a personal goal |
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| The tendency to perceive ambiguous actions by others as aggressive |
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| The tendency to perceive social interactions in general as being aggressive |
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| The tendency to assume that people will react to potential conflicts with aggression |
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| A response to stress that involve aggressing against others or running away |
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| Tend and Befriend Syndrome |
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| A response to stress that involve nurturing others and making friends |
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| Violence that occurs within the home or family, between people who have a close relationship with each other |
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| The increase in aggression that occurs as a result of the mere presence of a weapon |
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| The male sex hormone, high levels of which have been linked to aggression and violence in both animals and humans |
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| The feel good neurotransmitter, low levels of which have been linked to aggression and violence in both animals and humans |
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| According to Malaysian culture, refers to behavior of a young man who becomes uncontrollably violent after receiving a blow to his ego |
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| A society that places high value on individual respect, strength, and virtue, and accepts and justifies violent action in response to threats to one's honor |
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| A state of disgrace or loss of self-respect |
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| A sense of anonymity and loss of individuality, as in a large group, making people especially likely to engage in antisocial behaviors such as theft |
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| Social standards that prescribe what people ought to do |
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| Norms that specify what most others approve or disapprove of |
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| Norms that specify what most people do |
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| Anything that draws two or more people together, making them want to be together and possibly to form a lasting relationship |
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| A situation in which other people have come to like you, respect you, approve of you, and include you in their groups and relationships |
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| Rejection (Social Exclusion) |
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| Being prevented by others from forming or keeping a social bond with them; the opposite of acceptance |
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| The desire to form and maintain close, lasting relationships with other individuals |
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| What people actively do to try to make someone like them |
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| The ability to change one's behavior for different situations |
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| The proposition that people tend to pair up with others who are equally attractive |
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| The proposition that people and animals will perform behaviors that have been rewarded more than they will perform other behaviors |
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| Being near someone on a regular basis |
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| The idea that a partner's annoying habits become more annoying over time |
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| What is Beautiful is Good Effect |
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| The assumption that physically attractive people will be superior to others on many other traits |
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| Being excluded, rejected, and ignored by others |
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| A tendency to expect rejection from others and to become hypersensitive to possible rejection |
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| The painful feeling of wanting more human contact or connection than you have |
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| The idea that one person who breaks the rules can inspire other people to break the rules also |
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| A situation in which one person loves another but the other does not return that love |
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| Persisting in romantic, courtship, or other behaviors that frighten and harass the rejecter in a relationship |
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| Passionate Love (Romantic Love) |
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| Strong feelings of longing, desire, and excitement towards a special person |
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| Companionate Love (Affectionate Love) |
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| Mutual understanding and caring to make the relationship succeed |
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| An emotional state characterized by high bodily arousal, such as increased heart rate and blood pressure |
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| A feeling of closeness, mutual understanding, and mutual concern for each other's welfare and happiness |
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| A conscious decision that remains constant |
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| Relationships based on reciprocity and fairness, in which people expect something in return |
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| Relationships based on mutual love and concern, without expectation of repayment |
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| A theory that classifies people into four attachment styles based on two dimensions |
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| Style of attachment in which people are low on anxiety and low on avoidance; they trust their partners, share their feelings, provide and receive support and comfort, and enjoy their relationships |
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| Preoccupied (anxious/ambivalent) Attachment |
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| Style of attachment in which people are low on avoidance but high on anxiety; they want and enjoy closeness but worry that their relationship partners will abandon them |
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| Dismissing Avoidant Attachment |
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| Style of attachment in which people are low on anxiety but high on avoidance; they tend to view partners as unreliable, unavailable, and uncaring |
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| Regarding yourself as being a reasonably good person as your are |
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| Theory that uses three factors- satistfaction, alternatives, and investments- to explain why people stay with their long-term relationship partners |
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| Relationship-Enhancing Style of Attribution |
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| Tendency of happy couples to attribute their partner's good acts to internal factors and bad acts to external factors |
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| Distress-Maintaining Style of Attribution |
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| Tendency of unhappy couples to attribute their partner's good acts to external factors and bad acts to internal factors |
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| Social Constructionist Theories |
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| Theories asserting that attitudes and behaviors, including sexual desire and sexual behavior, are strongly shaped by culture and socialization |
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| Theory of sexuality asserting that the sex drive has been shaped by natural selection and that it forms thus tend to be innate |
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| Theory that seeks to understand social behavior by analyzing the costs and benefits of interacting with each other; it assumes that sex is a resource that women have and men want |
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| The sexually arousing power of a new partner |
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| The degree to which the sex drive can be shaped and altered by social, cultural, and situational forces |
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| Having sex with someone other than one's regular relationship partner, such as a spouse or boy/girlfriend |
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| The fact that a man cannot be sure that the children born to his female partner are his |
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| Condeming women more than men for the same sexual behavior |
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