In an era in which nuclear weapons are quite affordable, so that a single act of aggression may cause disaster, in an age when many people experience, often aggressive thoughts and impulses and personal health effects of interpersonal relationships have led psychologists to focus on the study of the emotional reactions – aggression.
Emotions determine not only the general reaction, but the specific reactions. Laugh when we rejoice when we are frightened we withdraw, become aggressive when we are angry. These reactions have a broad social significance. Psychologists who have focused their studies on aggression is based on two major theories of social behavior, which explains the different nature of aggression. While Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of aggression considered as instinct, social learning theory consider that a learned response.
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