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This book is concerned with why man aggresses. There areseveral reasons for addressing this issue, despite the great dealof attention that has already been devoted to it. Althoughaggression pervades our lives, few concerted efforts have beenmade to substantiate its causes or to devise constructive waysof reducing the level of societal violence. Man’s technologicalcapacity for massive destruction has now developed to the pointwhere he can no longer continue to settle conflicts bydestructive means. In addition to the threats posed to survival,violence increasingly encroaches on daily human affairs toimpair the quality of life. These developments make it all themore necessary to understand the determinants of injuriousconduct.Theories of human behavior have been undergoing drasticchange in the last decade. Interest in traditional approachesthat depict behavior as either instinctively determined orimpelled by drive forces declined as their deficiencies becameapparent. New perspectives based on social learning principleshave emerged that substantially advance understanding ofhuman behavior. In this book I have attempted to formulate asocial learning theory of aggression sufficiently bro

Who reads AGGRESSION: a social learning analysis?

Author

Albert Bandura

Publisher

International Psychotherapy Institute

Published

1973

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Social Psychology, Social_sciences