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Outline and evaluate two social psychological theories of aggression. Two social psychological theories of aggression are deindividuation and the social learning theory
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Outline and evaluate two social psychological theories of aggression. Two social psychological theories of aggression are deindividuation and the social learning theory. Both of these help to explain why people are aggressive. Deindividuation is when people are thought to be more aggressive because of the fact that they have been deindividuated; they have had their individual identity taken away from them so they blend into society and those around them. Individuals can be deindividuated when, for example it is night time or when they are in a big crowd because they won' be easily recognisable by themselves. Studies have provided evidence that deindividuation can be an explanation for aggression. Check for example found that on an anonymous survey of male students, a third of them said that they would commit rape if they though there was no chance of them being caught. This shows that if their individual identity was taken...
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