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

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

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?

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

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

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%:

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

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?