Group Influence on Aggression

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The Psychological Analysis of Aggressive Behavior Yap Keng Yong B1201329 Department of Business Psychology PSY205 Dr. Chua Sook Ning The Psychological Analysis of Aggressive Behavior The news that I had chosen is mainly concern about a man was beaten and slashed by angry motorcyclists after an accident was happened. There is a video showed how the conflict starts between the driver of SUV and bikers (Choudhury, 2013). In the video, there is a group of bikers ride to Time Square of New York (Choudhury, 2013). Suddenly, one of the bikers was braked sharply and slowed down, SUV driver then hit him, however, the video does not show how hard the collision was (Choudhury, 2013). The driver pulled over his car initially, but many bikers were surrounded the car (Choudhury, 2013). Those bikers were damaged the car and hurled threats, even one of the tires was slashed by bikers (Choudhury, 2013). The driver was suddenly accelerated and tried to escape from the place to ensure his and family safety from a pack of angry bikers (Choudhury, 2013). However, the car was then forced to slow down due to tires problem and traffic (Choudhury, 2013). In the moment, a biker then jumped from his motorcycle and used his helmet to smashes the window of driver’s side (Choudhury, 2013). The video is cuts off in this moment (Choudhury, 2013). According to NY Daily News, the driver of SUV was punched by motorcyclists, smashed on his face and chest (Choudhury, 2013). According to a driver that passed through the road, he mentioned that he saw bloods and glasses on the road. 20 and above motorcycles were stopped around the road (Choudhury, 2013). Aggression will be used to discuss the behaviors of the bikers that mentioned above. In addition, group influence which under aggression will be focus to analyze the behavior. According to Myers (2013), group can enlarge aggressive behavior by

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