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here if document is corrupted DESCRIBE RESEARCH INTO 2 OR MORE ENVIROMENTAL STRESSORS ON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR?
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DESCRIBE RESEARCH INTO 2 OR MORE ENVIROMENTAL STRESSORS ON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR? The two environmental stressors I have chosen to discuss are temperature and over-crowding. A theory that best describes environmental stressors on aggressive behaviour is the negative affect escape (NAE) theory; this claims that when the unpleasant stimuli increases so does the negative affect (the mood) and this leads to an increase of aggressive behaviour or an increase in the escape behaviour, if a person cannot escape they will become more aggressive and this can relate to temperature because it is something we cannot escape, so when the unpleasant stimuli becomes extreme people rather focus on their escape or they will become passive. Temperature can play an important role with aggression, Baron and Bell did research involving the effects of heat on aggression by seeing how willing a participant would be to give electric shocks to another, they found that temperatures...
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