Post by won on Dec 4, 2017 5:57:29 GMT
Have you ever been angry with someone more powerful than yourself (for example, an employer, a parent, a teacher …), been afraid to act aggressively toward them directly, but found yourself engaging in indirect aggression toward that person? Do you think such a phenomena is biologically based and bound to occur, or is it possibly a learned phenomena and we could also learn to avoid acting in these indirect aggressive ways?
I think we learn pretty quickly that we are placed in a hierarchical system in which we cannot operate properly if we act according to how we feel. As we grow up and gain more knowledge about the world, we become better and better at when we should speak up and when we shouldn't. This is not biologically based, because we are not always afraid to have an argument or even to start a physical fight with the more powerful figure. I think this has to do more with a learned phenomena. We were told by our parents not to talk back to them when they ask us to do something. We learn to see how hierarchy system is incorporated but as well as where one self stand. We are born with the capacity to handle complex social interactions (biological) but displaced aggression is socially learned.
I think we learn pretty quickly that we are placed in a hierarchical system in which we cannot operate properly if we act according to how we feel. As we grow up and gain more knowledge about the world, we become better and better at when we should speak up and when we shouldn't. This is not biologically based, because we are not always afraid to have an argument or even to start a physical fight with the more powerful figure. I think this has to do more with a learned phenomena. We were told by our parents not to talk back to them when they ask us to do something. We learn to see how hierarchy system is incorporated but as well as where one self stand. We are born with the capacity to handle complex social interactions (biological) but displaced aggression is socially learned.