week 10

• CHYS 2P10

Lecture 10. Aggression and Altruism

• Dr. Tony Volk

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• Course Business

• One final review/summary lecture next week

• Final Grades

• Regrettably, we don’t have the capacity to offer extra assignments for marks

• If you have concerns with your grade, make sure you get all of your participation grades,

hand in a strong paper and…contact your TA or myself with any questions about the

content for the final exam

• Aggression

• Aggression is found amongst all kinds of animals

• Recently, aggression has been viewed as not purely maladaptive

• Aggression has functional benefits to those who use it

• 3

• McGill Fight Club (Mississauga, NYC, Manitoba)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7XuXi3mqYM

• Yanomamo Man With Bow

, • Yanomamo Toddler With Bow

• Yanomamo Unokais

• Delinquent Behavior

• A significant proportion of delinquent behavior is thought to be caused by adolescents

• Moffitt suggests that delinquency may be the result of late teens trying to enter the world

of adults by committing adult acts

• Harris suggests that delinquency is the result of trying to establish an identity uinque

from mainstream adult society

• YMS

• Daly & Wilson believe that it is YMS, or Young Male Syndrome

• Young men compete with each other to gain status

• Status allows men to get more/better mates

• Poverty and Violence

• Developmental Trajectory of Aggression

• Aggression peaks in the early preschool/JK years

• As children get older, physical aggression decreases compared to other forms

• Transition to middle school is an important source of renewed conflict

• Aggression Development

• Social Processing & Aggression