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| Behavior directed toward the goal of harming another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment. |
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| A pattern of behavior in which one individual is chosen as the target of repeated aggression by one or more others; the target person (the victim) generally has less power than those who engage in aggression (the bullies). |
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| The view that providing angry people with an opportunity to express their aggressive impulses in relatively safe ways will reduce their tendencies to engage in more harmful forms of aggression. |
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| Cultures in which there are strong norms indicating that aggression is an appropriate response in insults to one's honor. |
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| Drive Theories (of agression) |
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| Theories suggesting that aggression stems from external conditions that arouse the motive to harm or injure others. The most famous of these is the frustration-aggression hypothesis. |
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| A principle suggesting that in situations in which they interact frequently with potential victims, most people try-when engaging in aggression-to maximize the harm they produce while minimizing the danger of retaliation. |
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| Excitation Transfer Theory |
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| A theory suggesting that arousal produced in one situation can persist and intensify emotional reactions occurring in later situations. |
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| Giving up the desire to punish someone who has hurt us and seeking, instead, to act in king, helpful ways toward them. |
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| Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis |
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| The suggestion that frustration is a very powerful determinant of aggression. |
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| General Aggression Model (GAM) |
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| A modern theory of aggression suggesting that aggression is triggered by a wide range of input variables that influence arousal, affective stages, and cognitions. |
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| Aggression in which the prime objective is inflicting some kind of harm on the victim. |
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| Aggression in which the primary goal is not to harm the victim, but rather attainment of some other goal-- for example, access to valued resources. |
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| Actions by others that tend to trigger aggression in the recipient, often because they are perceived as stemming from malicous intent. |
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| Procedures in which aversive consequences are delivered to individuals when they engage in specific actions. |
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| The traits as situational sensitivities model. A view suggesting that many personality traits function in a threshold-like manner, influencing behavior only when situations evoke them. |
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| Provoking statements that call attention to the target's flaws and imperfections. |
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| A pattern consisting primarily of high levels of competitiveness, time urgency, and hostility. |
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| A pattern consisting of the absence of characteristics associated with the type A behavior pattern. |
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| Any form of behavior through which individuals seek to harm others in their workplace. |
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