1. GRAB A MEDIA AND VIOLENCE WORKSHEET GET OUT YOUR AGGRESSION QUESTIONNAIRE

2. AGGRESSION GOALS: UNDERSTANDING WHAT AGGRESSION IS DISCUSSING WHAT CAUSES IT ANALYZE DATA: IS THE US MORE AGGRESSIVE? DETERMINE WHO IS MORE AGGRESSIVE, MEN OR WOMEN?

3. AGGRESSION ACTIVITY The handout that you grabbed earlier, please, follow the instructions and Prepare to Discuss WHAT IS AGGRESSION?

4. ARE THESE AGGRESSIVE ACTS? Gossip Calling a friend a name Vehicular Manslaughter Premeditated Murder Fist Fight Tearing up someone’s homework Threats School Shooting

5. AGGRESSION Aggression is behavior toward another individual carried out with the proximate (immediate) intent to cause harm Violence is Aggression BUT Aggression is NOT violence: it encompasses too much Let’s go back to the previous slide

6. NATURE VERSUS NURTURE We are here again! That ever lasting question in Social Psychology, Nature versus Nurture IS Aggression a learned Habit OR is it inborn in Humans? What do you think? Agree Disagree

7. TYPES Hostile/Affective Aggression: Aggression that comes from your emotions. Feelings of anger, aimed at inflicting pain Can you give me examples of when this happens? Instrumental: intent on hurting someone typically, but there is also a goal to obtain something else. This is planned out. When might Instrumental Aggression be used? Direct: You are aggressive with the target in your presence Indirect: Person is not present Gossip, Telling lies/stories behind their back

8. MEN OR WOMEN? Who is more likely to be aggressive? Why?

9. WOMEN More likely to participate in Indirect Why?

10. MEN More likely to engage in DIRECT Aggression? Why? Males are more likely to be violent Aggressors Why?

11. DOES CULTURE PLAY A ROLE? What do you think? What aspects of US culture may advocate for aggression and what aspects of it may not? Any other aggressive cultures?