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Critically consider research into the effects of two environmental stressors on aggressive behaviour.
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12th September 2003 Critically consider research into the effects of two environmental stressors on aggressive behaviour Different things can trigger aggression as well as psychological theories of aggression there are also environmental stressors which can also trigger aggression such as temperature and noise. Baron and Bell (1976) looked into the fact that temperature could trigger aggression. They studied the effects of heat on participants to see if it affected their willingness to give electric shocks. They found that when temperatures were between 33-35oC that this increased the level of aggression on the whole. However they also found that in extreme heat, aggression decreased again. This study would not have been ethically moral as the experiment would have caused a lot of stress to the participants which was the same in Milgram's electric shock experiment study. as this was a laboratory experiment it would not represent real life situations and would therefore lack ecological...
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