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Psychology ? Kiren Lakhani "Describe and evaluate two social Psychological theories of aggression. " Aggression is an action which involves hurting others on purpose and Aronson et Al (1997) says, "Aggression must mean to harm somebody. The harm can be physical-intending to cause bodily harm or psychological-intending to cause physical pain." Psychologists have identified different forms of aggression, these being person-oriented aggression, which is designed to hurt some-one else and so causing harm is the main goal. In contrast to that there is instrumental aggression which as its main goal is obtaining some sort of a desired reward. There's also proactive aggression which is instructed by the entity to achieve some of their most desired outcome and there's reactive aggression which is an entity's reaction to someone else's aggression. There are many theories in psychology which consider the cause of aggression. Two social-psychological theories that have considered this are...

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