Aggression Affects People's Everyday Lives

In the article “Everyday Aggression Takes Many Forms” the researchers conducted an experiment to see how aggression affects people’s everyday lives. People from different age groups were used to answer many questions pertaining to aggression and conflict. This experiment talks about what aggression is, the types of aggression, and the people affected by aggression. The researchers started this experiment by explaining the meaning of aggression and how it is sometimes misunderstood with the word assertiveness. Aggression is having the intention of harming an individual meanwhile assertiveness means expressing the needs of yourself without neglecting the needs of another person. Researchers found that when individuals are aggressive it is normally to someone that they spend time with on a

In this experiment gender was looked at as factor that influenced aggression. Many people tend to see men as more aggressive than women. The findings of the research found that there is no difference in aggression between males and females. However it was found that men do use more direct aggression then women but between the two genders both use indirect aggression the same as one other. Social connections is another way to look and see what type of aggression is used in day to day life. For example, if your social connections are denser you have more of a chance of using passive aggression then those you do not have that big of a social connection. If you have a bigger social connection then there is more a chance that what you tell one person will be told to the next then the next. So for instance, you will be more likely to spread gossip in the hope that it will reach the person you are talking about then actually saying it directly to them. In a smaller social connection, you are more likely to say something directly to a person because there is