13 Oct Aggressive behavior- A high school or college campus shooting How would you explain the aggressor’s behavior if you
- Aggressive behavior- A high school or college campus shooting
How would you explain the aggressor's behavior if you had made the fundamental attribution error? In other words, provide a dispositional explanation for the aggressive behavior.
- Next, provide a situational explanation for the aggressor's behavior. What might be the aggressor's construal, or interpretation, of the situation?
- How is the aggressor's construal influenced by the self-esteem motive (the need to feel good about ourselves by justifying our behavior) or the social cognition motive (the need to be accurate by acting on available information)?
- How could the influence of gender explain the aggressive act?
- What would you suggest to prevent or reduce instances of this specific type of aggression, either at the individual level or at the societal level?