Institutional Aggression by Daniel Paynter https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp Examples of institutions include the armed forces, boarding schools, prisons, mental institutions, and the work place. These are places with a strict rule set up that gives little free choice to its members. en-us 2016-06-03 11:18:09 UTC 2025-12-03 09:50:31 UTC hello@padlet.com daniel_paynter https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113773881 2016-06-06 10:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113773881 Prisons daniel_paynter https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774066 Zimbardo was motivated to take part in a prison study due to reported abuse by prisoners and guards in US prisons - it was seen as due dispositional factors. 


He concluded that behaviour actually resulted from situational factors (the environment creates brutality)]]> 2016-06-06 10:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774066 Genocide daniel_paynter https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774071 2016-06-06 10:51:08 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774071 Zimbardo daniel_paynter https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774102 2016-06-06 10:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774102 daniel_paynter https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774138 2016-06-06 10:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774138 Institutional aggression comes under social psychological theories of aggression mikijones8 https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774713 2016-06-06 10:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774713 It occurs in two ways: instrumental and hostile aggression.                Instrumental aggression is when institutional groups share common identities and aims - e.g. the Police - use aggression to achieve goals.   Hostile aggression is when people live in institutions e.g. prisons, and they use aggression emerging from emotional states such as anger. mikijones8 https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774800 Explanations of institutional aggression are attributed to situational factors (aggression stemming from factors within the social situation) or dispositional factors (aggression stemming from personality factors.)]]> 2016-06-06 10:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774800 Institutional aggression can result from dispositional or situational factors: nicole_snyman https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774834 Dispositional = aggression stems from personality factors
Situational = aggression stems from factors within the social situation]]> 2016-06-06 10:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113774834 Hazing = a form of institutional bullying used to discipline the junior members of the institutional in order to maintain the pecking order. nicole_snyman https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113775457 Allen and Madden: over half of 11,00 students in teams and clubs experienced hazing. ]]> 2016-06-06 11:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113775457 Evaluation of prisons mikijones8 https://padlet.com/daniel_paynter/32ns07wzpydp/wish/113775723 Practical applications - prison reform +

Hodgekinson et al - trainee nurses are more likely to be victims or assault, supporting that situational factors are the cause. +

Mills et al - surveyed 200 inmates newly admitted to a Canadian prison, using the alcohol dependency scale (ADS), and found increased levels of 'serious institutional misconduct' with increased alcoholism. This supports dispositional factors being the cause. +

Zimbardo said that prisons actually got worse, therefore the experiment cannot be justified in cost-benefit terms. -

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