• Consider the following five topics in which aggressive behavior is demonstrated and how social psychologists versus laypeople might assess each situation:
  • A high school or college campus shooting
  • An act of domestic violence or child abuse within a family
  • Looting of shops or homes after a natural disaster
  • Domestic or global terrorism
  • White-collar financial embezzlement
• Select one of the five aggressive topics listed above for your Discussion post. Think about how social psychology is applied to each case. (Disclaimer: If one of the situations is a sensitive topic for you, select a different topic to post and respond to.)

• From the following list of social psychology perspectives, select two that you can use to explain the topic you chose for this Discussion:
  • Self-esteem motive or social cognition motive
  • Fundamental attribution error and why it is an error
  • Evolutionary view
  • Culture
  • Sex and/or gender
  • Social cognitive learning theory
  • Physiological influences
  • Media
  • Situational explanation (i.e., frustration and aggression, relative deprivation, provocation and reciprocation, or weapons as aggressive cues)