Aggressive behaviour is so common that it perhaps does not call for any detailed explanation. Briefly we may describe aggressive behaviour as any action of an individual that results in harm or injury to other people or objects. Aggression may manifest itself in actual overt action or may be confined to the level of thought, intention, or verbal aggression. For [...]
How is it that aggressive behaviour comes to be aroused? Is it innate or is it learnt? This question has been considered by psychologists, sociologists, ethnologists, and many other groups of scientists. A strong piece of evidence to regard aggressive behaviour or aggressive tendency as innate or essentially biological is the fact that patterns of aggressive behaviour can be seen [...]
Aggression always carries an overtone of violence, hostility, anger, rage and authoritarian attitude and so it is condemned in every society. But these aggressive behaviours are tolerated when seen to be justified according to the social norms. For instance, a sexual pervert wants to rape a woman. In defence, if the victim hurts or kills this antisocial person, society may [...]
