Post by antonia on Oct 3, 2017 16:56:04 GMT
The frustration-aggression hypothesis revolves around the idea that when a person is unable to achieve a goal, they will become frustrated, and in turn begin to act aggressively due to that frustration. In other words, frustration leads to aggression, and it becomes a question of how that initial frustration can be controlled, and under what conditions a person becomes frustrated. Moghaddam emphasizes more on Freud’s concept of displaced aggression, which involves defence mechanisms, and suppressing the frustration only to express it in other ways, through projection and rationalization.