Abstract
Aggression, in common parlance, refers to a variety of actions designed to impair, injure, or destroy another person’s (or group’s) physical or psychological integrity, intentions, interests, or property. This means that such antisocial behavior as fights among children and fighting in a war, reprimand and murder, punishment and robbery are all assigned to the same category. Within motivation psychology, pinpointing the relevant conditions requires not only a phenotypical distinction but a genotypical distinction as well. This makes the task of identifying the relevant conditions considerably more complex. As in the case of other social motivations, the aggressive acting individual does not, as a rule, respond simply to situational circumstances but becomes enmeshed in a net of antecedents, which require an assessment of another’s intention and of the consequences of an aggressive action.
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Heckhausen, H. (1991). Aggression. In: Motivation and Action. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75961-1_10
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