Frustration And Aggression

By John Dollard, Leonard W. Doob, Neal E. Miller, O. H. Mowrer And Robert R. Sears

From the cover: “In this classic of modern psychology, a group of scientists develop a theory of aggressive behavior and apply their hypothesis to crucial problems in daily life. They reveal a com- mon psychological theme in such apparently chaotic phenom- ena as strikes and suicides, racial prejudice and reformism, sibling jealousy and lynching, satirical humor and criminality, street fights and the reading of detective stories, wife-beating and war. They examine the role of frustration in the socializa- tion of the individual and in the characteristic aggressiveness of adolescents and criminals. Democracy, fascism, communism, and the primitive society of the Ashanti are discussed both in respect to the peculiar frustrations they impose upon groups of people and the resulting aggressive behavior that si regulated and directed along different channels. Including within its scope material from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, psychoa- nalysis, pediatrics, social work, sociology, anthropology, and political science, Frustration and Aggression is an important milestone along the road to an integrated science of human behavior.”

New Haven. Yale University Press. 1939. 214p. CONTAINS MARK-UP