1. Ch 11: Aggression
Part 3: Nov. 17, 2010

2. Media & Aggression: Porn
Difficult to research this area – different definitions (‘explicit sexual material’)
Distinguish violent & nonviolent porn
Effects of learning ‘sexual scripts’
Rape myths research –what does it show?
Desensitization to brutality

3. Does violent porn provoke aggression? Donnerstein’s research –
Combo of arousal, aggression, & negative emotions
Donnerstein’s research –
1) differences in male-to-male aggression versus male-to-female aggression
2) How rape is depicted is crucial in influencing viewer’s later aggression
Results?

4. Violence w/Intimate Partners
Sexual coercion research –
Links w/alcohol
Changes in perceptions/behaviors
Pre-existing attitudes

5. Domestic violence – Most research on heterosexual couples
Female-to-male aggression relative to male-to-female?
Different consequences?

6. Newly researched forms of aggression
Road rage
Aronson’s proposal for ‘apology signal’
Cyberbullying
Efforts to stop bullying in Norway that reduced it by 50%:

7. Reducing Aggression: Punishment
For punishment to work, must be:
Prompt
Relatively strong
Consistent
…but potential for retaliation
…what does social learning theory imply?

8. Incompatible Responses
Baron – induce a response incompatible w/anger
Study w/confederate stopping at red light, waits for 15 sec after green light
What % of cars behind the confed will honk?
What were the different conditions?
What were the results?