Category: Aggression

Media depicted violence has been around for over a century now and has evolved from literature to comics to film and finally to video games, and each stage of progression has been met with societal backlash. In the past ten years however, the rise in mass shootings has caused many politicians to point a finger…

Video games have increasingly become a favourite activity amongst a widespread of children and adolescents providing entertainment, social interaction and relaxation. The gaming industry has become a global phenomenon with an estimated worth last reported at $134.9 billion in 2018 (Batchelor, 2018). Video games are a programmed universe, which allows humans to interact with a…

In the last two decades, many educational scholars have written about nursing being an oppressed profession. Many nurses faced a lot of frustrations due to inadequate autonomy and power. Due to these frustrations, they tend to be aggressive among themselves. Horizontal aggression in nursing has been present from the onset of the nursing profession, thus…

According to studies, there is no rigid definition for aggression nor inter-group aggression and therefore it is defined according to the correspondent’s values. The behavior studied may differ from one researcher to another. Bandura (1973) defines aggression as behavior that results in personal injury or the injury of others in society and the destruction of…

Aggression Aggression is a term people use to describe the behavior of others that is tended to harm someone else (Aronson, Wilson, Akert, 2016). There are several different types of aggression that some might not be aware of. This paper will explain some of the different types of aggression, how aggression affects people and the…

Abstract Aggression is something that psychologists all over are fascinated with. Will anyone ever have the same answer? Is aggression caused by nature or nurture? Are we made with aggression in us from the time we are born, or is this something that we learn as survival mechanisms? How do we eliminate aggressive outbursts, as…

Abstract There is no doubt that every human being has expressed some form of aggression even once in their lifetime. Often times we are able to correct our actions and learn from our mistakes to ensure that our spur-of-the-moment display of anger never occurs again. Some individuals, however, seem to express anger and aggression in…

Abstract Abstract Research on human aggression has advanced to a time when a binding framework structure is required. Major domain-constrained hypotheses of aggression incorporate cognitive neo-association, social learning, social connection, script, and excitation exchange theories. Utilizing the general aggression model (GAM), this audit places cognizance, influence, and excitement to intercede the impacts of situational and…

Deviance can be described as the diverging of what is seen as acceptable and the social standards set in our society it is seen in social and sexual behaviour. Deviance in sport can refer to purposely fouling an opponent to cause harm, the abuse of drugs and other forms of foul play like cheating. (BBC,…

Deviance can be described as the diverging of what is seen as acceptable and the social standards set in our society it is seen in social and sexual behaviour. Deviance in sport can refer to purposely fouling an opponent to cause harm, the abuse of drugs and other forms of foul play like cheating. (BBC,…