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[edit] Examples
This section aims to provide some examples of different types of aggression, each of which could be discussed further.
[edit] Cyberbullying
Aggression is not necessarily physical or direct.
Bullying, for example, can take place not only only in the playground (where it may be direct (overt) or indirect (covert, e.g., spreading rumours with an intent to negatively influence a person's social status), but also via electronic mediums, such as mobile phones and the internet.
[edit] Fighting
Fighting is an aggressive way to exert power and influence.
[edit] Rioting
Rioting usually involves aggressive, chaotic crowd behaviour directed towards authorities.
[edit] Genocide
Mummified victims of the
Rwandan Genocide (1994) at Murambi Technical School. Genocide is an example of violent interpersonal aggression undertaken collectively by human ethnic and/or cultural groups in an effort to systematically kill members of other ethnic/cultural groups.
Genocide is a sad and unnecessary
[edit] Social learning
According to Social Learning Theory, aggression is learned, as are other social behaviours.
[edit] Street fight
A fight is an example of interpersonal aggression. This face-to-face verbal and physical fight took place between some human beings on a street in
Beijing, China, August 18, 2007, and attracted several onlookers, including a passer-by with a camera. You can see some more photos of this incident on
flickr.com.
War involves persistent, intentional, collective aggression between groups, such as nations, who attempt to exert power and influence through use of military weaponary, but often also via political, economic, and socially strategies.
[edit] See also
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