Frustration Aggression Hypothesis

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Frustration / Aggression Hypothesis
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What Is It?

• Proposed by Dollard, Doob, Miller, Mower, and
  Sears (1939)
• Occurrence of frustration produces aggression
• Doob and Sears (1939)
• Buss (1963)
• Harris (1974)

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Berkowitzs Revision

• Frustration alone is not enough to produce
  aggression
• Importance of stimulus cues
• Leyens and Parke (1975)

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Conclusions

• Frustration does not inevitably result in
  aggression all the time
• Important to identify circumstances where
  frustration will end in aggression
• Aggression can occur in the absence of frustration

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Resources

• Coon, D. (1995). Introduction to Psychology
  Exploration and Application (7th ed.). St. Paul,
  MN West Publishing Company.